Are Newbies even allowed to have signatures anymore? I read recently that Lauda banned signatures for Jr. Members, which means Newbies would also be banned from that feature of account status.

Anyway, I can see why you posted this here, but you should put a proper announcement thread in the Services board so people can reply to it there and not have this thread clogging up the Beginners & Help board.

Services board can be found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0