Side projects you will probably never finish

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.

This matches my experience exactly. The hard part is staying consistent once the initial novelty wears off.

Could you say more about how you measured the result? I want to try this but I am not sure what success would look like.

This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

We ran into the same situation last quarter. What worked for us was starting small and only adding complexity when a real need showed up.