Previously if staff attempted to bulk update a large number of topics, the process could time out. We now process bulk actions in smaller batches to avoid such errors.
Does it affect topics splitting?
Since my migration, I have a 30000 replies topic that I can’t split because it timeouts.
Good question, I’m not sure. I don’t think so, but @gerhard should be able to confirm. Do you have a bug/support topic here on Meta for the topic split timeouts?
I’ve tested these actions on a lot of categories, the action durations correlated with the number of topics/posts from the categories
I had to rename a few categories by updating the database fields from the command line instead of editing the category settings inside Discourse’s interface.
I have been able to split the megatopics after a lot of tries, but not the largest one though I didn’t try since my migration 1 month ago.