[Answered ]-One common comments app vs. individual comment models in each Django app

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Using multiple tables will be likely to be faster, since it’s a simpler lookup, and avoids the additional queries to the Django content_type table. However, that approach could make for more difficulty in code maintenance. So that’s the tradeoff you need to consider.

What you could do is use a comments abstract base model, something along the lines of:

from django.db import models

class BaseComment(models.Model):
    author = ...
    title = ...
    body = ...

    class Meta:
        abstract = True

class VideoComment(BaseComment):
    video = models.ForeignKey(...)

That way, you get the more performant db lookups, with less of the code maintenance overhead.

👤Joey Wilhelm

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