Comment to Custom User Profile URL?
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Subdomains can be useful for some setups where each profile is an isolated environment, but for a typical site it can be a nightmare. Search engines will treat each profile as a separate site, some content will be duplicated across main domain and subdomains due to browsing pages, whole relative links structure of the site will go belly up, ... oh some many things would happen it’s hard to even think about it :D