[Fixed]-Improving an existing badge system for a Django web forum

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IMO you should definitely move it in your DB. Manually maintained lists might seem a good idea now but are not scalable and will inevitably cause headaches later on.

The easiest approach is to create a UserProfile model (see docs) that can be used to store this and any other user information:

from django.conf import settings

class Profile(models.Model):
    # Tie this profile to a specific user.
    # You may need to set null=True if migrating a bunch of existing users
    # who don't have a profile.
    user = models.OneToOneField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    verified = models.BooleanField(default=False)

Then you can access this from anywhere using the standard reverse relationships:

  {% if person.profile.verified %}
       <span style="color:orange;"><b>*</b></span>
  {% endif %}

You should also make sure you add the appropriate select_related calls to your querysets so that the users and profile are fetched in the same DB query.

👤solarissmoke

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