The comments fiasco

Ok so the commentbox works pretty well. I saw 10-15!! comments before I went to bed (thanks Brennan, Chris, Steve, JP and all the other anonymous netizens - seriously I had no idea so many people were reading this thing). But, low and behold, some smart-Alec decided to delete the lot, either on purpose or by accident. I guess I kinda dangled the carrot, so I can't complain. Actually I imagined some kind of Butthead character snickering as they pressed the big red button. It is harmless fun, and a couple of you anticipated it in your comments. You can have a cookie. Anyway, it rained again today. I don't really need an excuse, but I grabbed it anyway and did some shoddy coding again. I wanted to mitigate the Buttheads, I even drew little diagrams on paper, and eventually came up with a solution. It's brittle, but it'll do. Since I don't pay for Supabase (where the database is hosted), I can't rollback and simply restore the lost data. I believe there's a self-hosted solution, but…