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Are there any *performance benefits* in having your users comments on a separate page rather than the actual post/article page?
Example use-case: medium.com

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  • 7
    Websites forcing people to go through different pages often do it to display the ads multiple times.
  • 3
    Yes, data not transmitted is data you don't have to transmit.
  • 1
    Potentially a very minor improvement, as you don't need to load the article - but I can guarantee that in this day and age, that's definitely *not* the reason why these models are used (nor should it be.)
  • 1
    Maybe they are different micro services?
  • 1
    Yes, if comments are outsourced as a separate [internal or external] services. Also, looks cleaner.
  • 0
    Because, they can put more ads, when you're redirected to the comment section.
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