[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #58906: Large amount of Users crashes the /wp-admin/users.php?action=delete page

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#58906: Large amount of Users crashes the /wp-admin/users.php?action=delete page
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 Reporter:  bedas                        |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)                 |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Users                        |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  major                        |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  administration, performance  |
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 Whenever a website has a large amount of users (in the testing case, 200k
 users), and you want to delete a user, the page at `/wp-
 admin/users.php?action=delete` completely crashes.

 1. Click `delete` for a certain user that has authored content or comments
 2. It will lead you to the `/wp-admin/users.php?action=delete` page
 3. There you can select if just delete or reassign content
 4. Choose to re-assign content and try to select a user to reassign to

 At this point you will realise the page is completely crashed and un-
 reactive. Not even re-loading the page will work, it is completely boomed.
 If you open the console, you will see that not even the HTML inspector is
 capable to load, because something is blocking the entire browser.

 I believe it is because the select provided to select a user to attribute
 to, is simply getting too large and it should be improved with a "search"
 (like select2), so not all users are loaded into the select at once.

 This is simply not an ideal way to implement a select, it is not scalable,
 and it is very common for WP Websites to have a few more than a handful of
 users.
 I cannot imagine I am the first one to notice and report this issue, yet,
 it seems there is no report mentioning this issue, at all.

 I consider this a relatively urgent issue, because really out of 10
 websites I manage, 9 websites have more than 1000 users. Perhaps I am
 alone with this.

 The issue is on top very old.

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