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This has been brought up numerous times in the past 7 or 8 years and Paizo's answer has always been that they don't like forum signatures (thats why we have customizable user profiles) and they aren't going to implement email notifications (because all that extra email looks like spam to ISPs). Paizo's also turned down the idea of custom avatars too, because they bring along whole new dimensions of potential problems.
Good luck!
-Skeld
PS: do a forum search and you'll find a graveyard full of threads on these subjects.
These forums are an outlier - don't know of any other forums not having email notifications, so if they can do it, why not Paizo? Spam explanation doesn't ring true.
These forums are an outlier - don't know of any other forums not having email notifications, so if they can do it, why not Paizo? Spam explanation doesn't ring true.
Labour costs money.
Code changes require labour.
The Paizo forum and store are an integrated codebase that is - according to their own explanations - complicated and difficult to work with. That makes even simple changes difficult.
There's a whole pile of QoL improvements that have been suggested through the last decade plus, but the complexity drives the cost, and it's just not worth doing.
I'm pretty sure I read something about a total store/forum rewrite maybe a year (or two now) ago, but I haven't seen anything recent so I could be incorrect or it could be scrapped or it could be around the corner.
But this isn't just some vBulletin stock forum where enabling this stuff just involves turning it on.
I'm pretty sure I read something about a total store/forum rewrite maybe a year (or two now) ago, but I haven't seen anything recent so I could be incorrect or it could be scrapped or it could be around the corner.
No, you're right. They included the news about upgrading the forums in a blog post a while back. I haven't seen anything new since then.
I'd love forum signatures, I miss those.