Profile Flags Specification

[AltriusRS]

Hi folks, this discussion is regarding the encoding, decoding, and availability of profile flags within the project, allowing us to (in future) provide things like achievement badges, as well as badges for LMG staff, and guests who have been on the show.

This spec is designed to try and store all this data in a format which is as space-efficient as possible, so as to minimize the amount of excess space needing to be trimmed from the database,

As it stands the flags are as follows:

Mask	Flag	Description
0b00000001	Owner	Represents me, the owner of the project, or whoever owns the project in the future
0b00000010	LMG / Yvonne Umbrella Corp Staff	Represents a user who is actively employed by LMG or Yvonne Umbrella corp and it's subsidiaries
0b00000100	Retired Staff	Like the flag above, but for people who have left the company
0b00001000	Editor	Represents somebody who has been given the permission of "editor" (see permissions spec)
0b00010000	Early Access	Represents somebody who signed up for an account prior to September 16th, 2023

Whilst the flag spec currently in use is masked with 8 bits, it can (and likely will) be expanded to higher bit counts in the future.

If anybody has any queries, suggestions, or edits to make to this, please post them before the discussion deadline of September 16th, 2023, as this will be when the flag spec is integrated into the website.