[image] this issue has existed for months today the forum has about 405 categories

I suspect it’s just that your server is too slow to accomplish the task. Hundreds of categories isn’t really recommended. The way I’ve sorted hundreds of categories before was in rails.

[תמונה] pfaffman: I suspect it’s just that your server is too slow to accomplish the task. Ah – this problem was actually why I chose the IONOS VPS L. Previously I found better performance with the IONOS Data Center Designer, where I was also using a VPS. I’ve never experienced the Dedicated Core offering, which could potentially null this issue, but I believe the Designer VPS had faster NVMe and maybe higher per-core turbo. [תמונה] pfaffman: Hundreds of categories isn’t really recommended. The UI loading of the composer’s category selector is slow, but that encourages people to browse into the desired category first, IMHO. [תמונה] pfaffman: The way I’ve sorted hundreds of categories before was in rails. Nice - I think we’re into the command line vs. UI discussion again :rofl:

Here’s something I recommended to someone else (that I still haven’t tested). [תמונה] Ordering categories is quite glitched when the numbers get high Bug Yeah. I once wrote some code to alphabetize them at the rails console, I think, but I don’t see it at hand. You can probably get https://ask.discourse.com/ or some other AI to give you some code to do it. . .. Well, I couldn’t. This might work, but I didn’t try it. cats = Category.where("parent_category_id is not null").pluck(:parent_category_id).uniq cats.each do |cat| subs = Category.where(parent_category_id: cat.id) subs_sorted = subs.sort_by { |c| c.name.downcase } pos = 10 s…

You’re doing some crazy stuff with Discourse, Ethan! :rofl: Were you able to resolve your issue?

Haha thanks Tobias! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: It only happened that one time — I haven’t run any Rails commands or anything like that, just through the UI. The same operation worked after retrying, so it looked like a temporary 502 rather than a lasting issue. Haven’t needed to re-order categories since, so it’s not bothering me now. :slightly_smiling_face:

שגיאת 502 בעת סידור מחדש של קטגוריות

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tobiaseigen (Tobias Eigen) 6 באוקטובר,‏ 2025,‏ 6:40pm 5

You’re doing some crazy stuff with Discourse, Ethan!

Were you able to resolve your issue?

נושא		תגובות	צפיות
502 error when trying to save the categories order Bug	7	723	25 במרץ,‏ 2021
Error 422 when reordering categories Product Support	4	1177	5 בספטמבר,‏ 2023
Reordering Categories Produces Error 422 Bug	18	2838	18 במאי,‏ 2024
502 errors when renaming large (by topic count) categories Bug	31	2503	26 בנובמבר,‏ 2020
Reorder Categories behaving strangely Bug	15	1623	12 באפריל,‏ 2019

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