Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Unstructered section vs. Unstructured sections (plural!)/reply (14)

Actually, "up to one scratchpad per comment" was not what I said. I see no particular reason why you couldn't have a dozen scratchpads associated with a single comment, if that's what you wanted.

Database storage is not something I'd want to speculate on, but the primary difference between a Flow comment and a scratchpad is the storage difference: one is written directly in HTML5, and the other is written in exactly the same wikitext markup that articles are currently stored in. So even if the wikitext area is "inside" the comment, it seems to me that you would still have the Flow comment and the "wikitext area" stored separately, with exactly the same limitations that you hypothesize about being able to find it later (or even greater ones, because if you can tag it separately, then you ought to be able to view it, and therefore to see the URL just for it).