[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12668: Better support for custom comment types

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#12668: Better support for custom comment types
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 Reporter:  ptahdunbar   |       Owner:  ptahdunbar
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Comments     |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Comment (by mark-k):

 Replying to [comment:34 judgej]:
 > @mark-k The whole point of this is that comments are *not* another post
 type. They live in a table all of their own, and that table can grow
 enormously when used by some plugins (e.g. WooCommerce uses a comment for
 each status change to an order, which usually amounts to six or more
 comments on each order, of which there can be hundreds of thousands on
 even a reasonably sized shop).

 1. I think that at this stage what table is being used is an
 implementation detail. Right now the way I understand the ticket it is not
 about how to reduce the bloat in the comments table.

 2. which is why wC and EDD should not use the comments table at all, and
 should have their own table. See my bonus points section.

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 > Alternative approaches would be for plugins to stop using comments to
 store comments.

 Exactly my point, WC and EDD store data as comments because it results in
 convenient admin UI and API, not because they are anything like a
 conventional comment.

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