Flarum is unable to Load if there are large number of tags

[sanjibnarzary]

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Explanation

I have inserted 50000 tags which I have imported from stackexchange data dump in to the flarum tags table by using a script. My flarum site was working fine with 1000 number of tags but when I increase the number of tags it fail to load. When I remove the imported tags it again works as normal.

Technical details

• Version of Flarum: 7.beta
• Website URL where the bug is visible: http://localhost
• The webserver you are running: apache
• PHP version: 7.0
• Hosted environment: local machine

Flarum info

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[franzliedke]

Is that a legitimate use-case? What exactly do you want to achieve with such a large number of tags?

[tobyzerner]

I think we should support this use-case (eg. an extension which allows users to specify their own tags) but it's low priority.

I assume the bottleneck currently is that we load/display all tags at once by default.

[sanjibnarzary]

@franzliedke What if I wanted to create a website similar to stackexchange with flarum.
@tobscure Where do I change the code for displaying only a few tags?

[franzliedke]

Well, with such an extension, you probably wouldn't want to display all tags like we do (by default). I am just saying that this kind of use-case might fall outside of our tags extension's scope.

[tobyzerner]

Relevant discussion in https://github.com/flarum/core/issues/395

[tobyzerner]

Closing this to be addressed as part of flarum/issue-archive#393.