[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 judgej):

 TBH, I'm torn.

 Yes, the comments are being used for various purposes (mainly logging
 stuff) on non-blog posts due to their administration convenience. That to
 me feels right and in scope for what the comments are for.

 And yes, creating tables is a slippery slope.

 However, custom tables can often be a much better fit for some purposes.
 Back to WooCommerce again, each order has a dozens of custom fields -
 order options, each part of each postal address etc. The rate at which the
 wp_postmeta grows as a result is frightening. I don't think WP was ever
 designed to be scaled in the direction that some of these plugins are
 taking it, and I hate to say it, but they really should be putting their
 data into more optimised tables of their own.

 I think this is always going to be a problem as WP is pushed more away
 from its simple blogging roots; the people pushing it to its limits are
 moving faster than WP ever will, and the limits causing immense
 performance issues on some sites are being exposed.

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