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sig strata

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2026 11:26 pm
by vilmibm
so i am trying to remember what it was like back in the day...were sigs always pulled from the db for each post? I assume they were

but it strikes me as sad that older posts don't carry older sigs. each new sig wipes out the old one and old posts get "updated"

i suspect this sadness of mine is out of scope for sickos.net as it'd be a structural change to the underlying software but i wonder what others thing about it

Re: sig strata

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2026 11:34 pm
by owl
ok i LOVE the idea of sig/avatar being etched into the post at the point in time it was made

Re: sig strata

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2026 11:37 pm
by vilmibm
HOW CAN WE DO IT

Re: sig strata

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2026 11:38 pm
by owl
hmm it wouldn't be TOO hard...

- add avatar url and signature fields to the post table
- modify the template to display those instead of what's on the user table
- update the post adding code to set the values on the post table based on what's on the user table at that moment
- make sure changing your avatar doesn't remove your old uploaded avatar

Re: sig strata

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2026 11:39 pm
by owl
the last one is probably the most unknown for me, but we could do just the signatures for now to make it easy

Re: sig strata

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2026 4:51 am
by acdw
Could we make it user-configurable? I think I'd like all of my posts to carry my current avatar and signature for ease of recognition