Comment by wavemode

> supernormalize everything into the relations object(id, type) and edit(time, actor_id, object_id, key, value)

I frankly hate this sort of thing whenever I see it. Software engineers have a tendency to optimize for the wrong things.

Generic relations reduce the number of tables in the database. But who cares about the number of tables in the database? Are we paying per table? Optimize for the data model actually being understandable and consistently enforced (+ bonus points for ease of querying).