Website: Comments v6: an update you will probably not notice

This update has been a nightmare to work with. In fact, I have been putting it away for years because I didn't even think I could manage to make it happen without breaking anything. But somehow, I did it!
Now comes the funny part. If I did it well, you won't notice anything :D

If you actually care about what happened, the comments were in a state where it was pretty hard to work with. Each comment section's data was stored in a different table in the database. This meant data was very fragmented, and every time something new was added it had to take into account about 7 different tables. Not propagating one change properly would break everything.
This is no longer the case! We migrated all tables into a single one (which was a slow, scary, and intense task) and now everything is centralized and easy to work with. Future changes will be smoother and less suicide-inducing.

Anyways! This update brings big boring internal changes and little improvements. Check the changelog to know more.

Changelog

Comments

• Improved structure of comments' code.


• Restructured comments' database, merging all sources into one single table.


• Comment IDs are now globally incremental.




• This means comment IDs will not repeat in different pages.


• Also, every comment has a new ID. However, old IDs have been preserved to not break old comment links.




• Comment links will now use a "thread" parameter instead of "comment" to differentiate from old IDs.

Other

• Fixed bbcode tags with nothing but spaces in their properties.


• Added more warnings for image URLs known not to work.


• Temporarily disabled options to sort comments from origin in your notifications, as the changes in comments' structure will require a new way of doing it.


• The void exploration begins.