Thanks Jay!
Just uploaded 500. Took a while but all I did was shorten the wait times to 1s for posts and topics, and added a sleep for a second after each create call and that solved it. It took about 4 hours to upload ~500 messages.
This is definitely the way. This will give us plenty to chew on and moderate for a bit.
BTW this is all currently in a private Discourse, so we’re gonna make it look pretty before we open the gates.
Thanks again for all of your help! Looking forward to that new plugin!