Incorrect calculation of forum Signature size...

[joedf]

I have noticed that The BBCode tags are also counted in length of the signature.
I agree on this limitation of the length of the signature to avoid Spam, clutter and all...
But, if, for example, I have an image or link, that I want to have in my signature, well then
The user is Forced to use a URL shortener, even when the full link is not displayed.
For example:

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[url=http://example.com/page/a-really-long-link-blahblahblah-1234567890987654321--file-page/help.html]My Help Page[/url]

this Only appears as "My Help Page" which is 12 characters,
And should not count as 120 characters, therefore I believe that only the visible elements should count
in other words, tags should not be "charcounted"..

Regards,

[MasterFocus]

I don't understand anything about phpBB, but I suppose there's nothing to do about this "bug", so my suggestion would be to actually increase that limit.

[tank]

We can increase the limit but counting only visible content as you put it will take a couple hours of work. It isn't high on my list right now so ill just increase the max length for now

[joedf]

Regex? Shouldn't be too hard it's ok take your time, just saying

[VxE]

A regex to match all valid permutations of bbcode tags?... I shudder to think what a beast that would be.

I think the most bang-for-your-buck would be to subtract the length of all URL tags (regex: "\[URL=[^\]*]\]") from the total signature length.