Posted by cburschka on February 9, 2007 at 8:16am
Will DruBB continue to use the "comment" module for replies, as the core forum module does? Because that's been one of my pet peeves for quite a while... or is there a good reason not to use full nodes for each post?
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This has been discussed
This has been discussed several time. The result was usually that using full nodes for each post has quite a few advantages (e.g. attachments without a seperate "comment attachments" module and so on), but the performance would suffer a lot, and therefore the idea has been rejected so far.
So, it's all about performance. Some benchmarks would be helpful here ...
Yeah, they always say
Yeah, they always say performance might suffer, but as far as I know nobody has ever actually done any testing on it.
Hi, As stated before, the
Hi,
As stated before, the DruBB project will be based on Drupal's core components, so it will use comments.
Have a nice day.
So are you planning to
So are you planning to submit patches for Drupal's comments module? I think I remember you saying you plan to use nodes for posts, which the current comments system doesn't...
Yes of course. What patches
Yes of course.
What patches do you think about?
I didn't really have any
I didn't really have any specific areas in mind. I'm more wondering if you intend to directly modify Drupal's core comments/forum system, with all the patch approval process that entails, or if you were planning a new forum system that would use Drupal's core components, but would still be maintained separately from the core Drupal distro.
Hi, I won't modify the core
Hi,
I won't modify the core components, I'll make modules that append the current components.
Yeah a big reason not to use
Yeah a big reason not to use comments as nodes is performance. Comment attachments is much less of a performance hit than having the node table multiply in size.
There's some issues with the comment module though. This being a major one: http://drupal.org/node/6162