Batch Delete topics in a category?

Feature
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Might be quicker to use rails console for this until there is GUI support. Would there be any consequence of running?:

Topic.where(category_id: 1).destroy_all

I assume this will clean up after itself? @zogstrip @sam

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It may take hours or even days to run if the number of topics is large.

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43

I’m really liking discourse so far, but this seems like a basic admin feature that has been overlooked. Another, clunky way to do this is to create some kind of macro that will select, scroll down, select, and so on.

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I believe adding basic “select all visible topics” is on @techapj’s plate for this release.

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Jeff, can you define “visible”? Is this only what can be seen on screen, or what is loaded at the moment?

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Only what is on screen. Otherwise it is a very hard feature to build and it could take hours or even days to run if you “selected” six thousand topics.

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47

Makes sense. Still would be nice to have some way to select all topics in a category, even if a background task like exporting a report.

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This is now done :sunny:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/9c7b891afdb687e1ceb110ba07e53b805f04bb5d

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