Re: [development] comments as nodes

David Strauss wrote:

Unfortunately, treating comments as nodes in response to nodes makes the database optimizations particularly difficult for the tracker. It's not impossible to make it run fast, but treating comments as special kinds of nodes takes much elegance out of the design.

That would be true if they were "just nodes", but since they also directly manipulate the node_comment_statistics table the same way that the comment module does, I think you'll agree that all of your arguments regarding the comment count metric in the tracker query will apply to comments as nodes as well.