Forum profile photo query for Alan

[Jacki]

I like to change my profile photo with the seasons and enjoy taking pictures of flowers and gardens and I was wondering if there was a way for the past posts to keep the photo they had at the time of posting? There probably isn’t cause I’m not technically-minded, and it’s not important, it just would be nice to look back at an old post and see what was current then. And be fun for those with photos of the themselves to look back and see then and now!

[Alan W]

No, I don't know of any way to do that, Jacki. Sorry.

[Jacki]

Thanks anyway!

[Calilasseia]

I like to change my profile photo with the seasons and enjoy taking pictures of flowers and gardens and I was wondering if there was a way for the past posts to keep the photo they had at the time of posting? There probably isn’t cause I’m not technically-minded, and it’s not important, it just would be nice to look back at an old post and see what was current then. And be fun for those with photos of the themselves to look back and see then and now!

That would require images to be saved on the server (along with database entries recording when each image was in use). Even if users only change images once per year,, the resource requirements add up substantially over time.

Then you would have all the fun of integrating said database and saved images with the forum software. An in depth examination thereof could very well scupper the idea.

[Jacki]

Yep well I’m definitely not technically-minded which is why I asked the question to start with, obviously I have no idea!!