- this issue has existed for months
- today the forum has about 405 categories
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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.
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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.
The UI loading of the composer’s category selector is slow, but that encourages people to browse into the desired category first, IMHO.
Nice - I think we’re into the command line vs. UI discussion again 
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Here’s something I recommended to someone else (that I still haven’t tested).
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You’re doing some crazy stuff with Discourse, Ethan!
Were you able to resolve your issue?
Haha thanks Tobias! 
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. 
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