diff --git a/src/server.js b/src/server.js
index 0204714..7bbd208 100644
--- a/src/server.js
+++ b/src/server.js
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ app.post("/submit_post", (req,res) => {
 	else if (users[func.get_userID(username)]['hash'] == password) { // Password matches
 	    console.log(username, "is submitting a post titled:", title);
 		posts.push({
+            "id": posts.length,
 			"userID": func.get_userID(username),
 			"title": title,
 			"content": content,
@@ -354,6 +355,7 @@ app.post("/submit_signup", (req,res) => {
         // so this checks that the user does not exist
         if (func.get_userID(username) == -1) {
             users.push({
+                "id": users.length,
                 "username": username,
                 "prettyname": prettyname,
                 "hash": password,
@@ -398,12 +400,12 @@ app.post("/submit_edit_user", (req,res) => {
 
             if (delete_bool == true) {
                 // Delete the user
-                users[userID] = {"deleted": true}
+                users[userID] = {"id": 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[postid] = {"deleted": true} // delete the post
-                        comments.comments[postid] = {"deleted": true} // the comments for this post should also be deleted
+                        posts[postid] = {"id": postid, "deleted": true} // delete the post
+                        comments.comments[postid] = [] // the comments for this post should also be deleted
                     }
                 };
             }
@@ -447,8 +449,8 @@ app.post("/submit_edit_post", (req,res) => {
 		post['editdate'] = unix_timestamp
 		if (typeof delete_bool != "undefined") {
 			console.log("Deleting post!")
-			posts[postID] = {"deleted": true}
-            comments.comments[postID] = {"deleted": true}
+			posts[postID] = {"id": post["id"], "deleted": true}
+            comments.comments[postID] = []; 
 		    fs.writeFileSync(`../data/comments.json`, `${JSON.stringify(comments)}`, 'utf-8');
 		}
 		fs.writeFileSync(`../data/posts.json`, `${JSON.stringify(posts)}`, 'utf-8');