since the initially planned settings system is too complicated, both for implementing it and for the users to understand it, a simpler system will be implemented instead
there's 2 cases:
logged out user:
settings stored using a session cookie
when the site is first opened and there's no session cookie, create it and fill it with default values
changing the settings will change these settings in the db that's connected to the session cookie
the session cookie (and the db data) will expire in a year
since the initially planned settings system is too complicated, both for implementing it and for the users to understand it, a simpler system will be implemented instead
there's 2 cases:
logged out user:
logged in user: