…or have I done something to offend?
I came to change my signature edit count shield and I’m greeted with the error message…
You cannot use certain BBCodes: [img].
Is this a site-wide problem or have I transgressed in some way?
Read the above posts.
It was done intentionally by Waze staff due to a perceived security issue.
Personal opinion, if certain image types, such as GIF, are restricted, the threat is mitigated.
Quite a number of forums I am on do not allow animated GIF files, but other file types are unrestricted.
Somehow there seems to be some logic missing in that statement.
As can be seen from my above message I’m already using the [img] tag, so if we’re not allowed to use them why are my sig images still there? Makes no sense.
Existing signatures were not restricted.
The ability to add the {img} tags was removed.
Not only can you not add new tags to your sig, you can also not save your existing sig without removing the img tags.
Yes, it is rather silly as IMG tags are still available in forum posts.
The main reason why I’m still keeping my current signature when I wanted to change it last week
I don’t understand if Waze staff don’t know how to fix this issue or they want to stop images…
In any case, I don’t understand what is the meaning…
Paolo
ps
Waze 4.10.0 on IOS 9.3.2
It would be nice if we could have an update on this issue.
It’s been 2 week since the problem I think.
And if they aren’t going to fix it anytime soon, how about giving us a few hours maybe once a week where they enable IMG so we can update our sigs
This is a good idea.
That doesn’t give them a way to check and approve the IMG files before we can use them.
That is what is really needed. To be safe, they would need to host the approved files and make sure they don’t get changed by malware running on someone’s machine.
Then for signatures, they can limit use to the official signatures in the sig site. Those can be scanned and declared safe and locked or whatever they need to do to prevent changes.
Maybe we just all go old school and copy and paste signatures into the body of the post.
I think my new signature explains my feelings about this pretty well.
I don’t think I’d use TSA as an example of “credible security assessment”, especially to an Israeli based compnay. The TSA is a joke in the US as it is… :lol:
(I forgot the command to comment in italics because mobile…)
If only he knew…
I have been stopped twice by TSA in six months. Once for falling. Once for nearly stacked protein bars with a foil wrapping…yet…I can see how that looked like
explosives.
Kinda a crack at them too.
One thing to keep in mind is that when you change your signature, it seems to get changed in every post you have ever made to the forums.
A picture in a single posting is only seen by those that happen to see that posting.
I was just making an off-hand comment about how to make it work when creating a post or sending a PM (hereafter collectively “post”) since we (non-admin users) can continue to post images using IMG (the content of which could subsequently be modified) but cannot in our signatures.
To geek out… As you alluded to, the signature function maintains a separate storage space for your signature. Your signature is not actually added to a post. When we request to “add our signature” the content of that storage space is rendered after the post. Putting your current signature in each post would increase the storage consumed with each post. Likewise it would create a static copy of your signature in that post. While this would have the side-effect of separating the posts we made when we started from the ones we made while in other roles, its hardly worth it. The signature display in forum profiles would not be updated since it is just another rendering of the signature storage.
If the goal is to protect viewers from malicious content in images, this seems an incomplete solution. While it may not protect us from all zero-day attacks, observing security best practice on our own computers is still our individual responsibilities regardless of what we access on the Internet.
I just noticed that IMG has been enabled again, so we can update our signatures. But for how long?
Woow let me update my signature before anything happens again 
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And, foiled again. Tried to update with img tags, signature still shows the code, not the img