posts are marked as deleted to preserve array structure

README.md

@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ Read the [configuation guide](docs/CONFIG.md) for configuration help (in config.
 * probably insecure as hell
 
 # Planned features/todo list
-* URGENT give each post and user a hard postID to prevent potential issues
 * edit user (could be on instead of the delete_account page)
 * user specific RSS feeds
 * atom

src/server.js

@@ -306,18 +306,18 @@ app.post("/submit_delete_account", (req,res) => {
         if (password == users[userID]['hash']) { // password matches
             console.log(username, "(userID:", userID, ") is trying deleting their account")
             // Delete the user
-            users.splice(userID,1)
+            users[userID] = {"deleted": true}
             // Delete all their posts
             for (let postid = 0; postid < posts.length; postid++) { // loop over all posts
                 if (posts[postid]['userID'] == userID) { // if userID matches
-                    posts.splice(postid,1) // delete the post
-                    comments.comments.splice(postid,1) // the comments for this post should also be delete
+                    posts[postid] = {"deleted": true} // delete the post
+                    comments.comments[postid] = {"deleted": true} // the comments for this post should also be deleted
                 }
             };
             // Write these changes
             fs.writeFileSync(`../data/users.json`, `${JSON.stringify(users)}`, 'utf-8');
 		    fs.writeFileSync(`../data/posts.json`, `${JSON.stringify(posts)}`, 'utf-8'); 
-	        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/comments.json`, `${JSON.stringify(comments.comments)}\nexport const counter = ${comments.counter}`, 'utf-8');
+	        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/comments.json`, `${JSON.stringify(comments)}`, 'utf-8');
             res.redirect(301,"/")
         }
         else { // password does not match
@@ -354,8 +354,8 @@ app.post("/submit_edit", (req,res) => {
 		post['editdate'] = unix_timestamp
 		if (typeof delete_bool != "undefined") {
 			console.log("Deleting post!")
-			posts.splice(postID,1)
-            comments.comments.splice(postID,1)
+			posts[postID] = {"deleted": true}
+            comments.comments[postID] = {"deleted": true}
 		    fs.writeFileSync(`../data/comments.json`, `${JSON.stringify(comments.comments)}\nexport const counter = ${comments.counter}`, 'utf-8');
 		}
 		fs.writeFileSync(`../data/posts.json`, `${JSON.stringify(posts)}`, 'utf-8');

views/headers/user.ejs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 <h1>
-    <%- user.prettyname %>'s posts
+    <%= user.prettyname %>'s posts
 </h1>
+<p><%- converter.makeHtml(user.description) %></p>
 <%- config.seperator %>

views/pages/timeline.ejs

@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@
         </div>
         <div id="posts">
             <% for (let index = posts.length - 1; index >= 0; index--) { %>
+            <% if (posts[index]["deleted"] != true) { %>
                     <%- include('../posts/timeline', {post: posts[index], index: index, user: users[posts[index].userID]}); %>
                 <% } %>
+            <% } %>
         </div>
         <footer>
             <%- include('../partials/footer'); %>