(Refactor) Normalize forum aggregates #4292
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Even though the queries were ultra efficient before (always less than 5ms), the total combined cpu execution time for forums is not greater than 0.3% of all total execution time. Opt for cleaner code and a normalized database instead.
In a forum with 40k posts and 5k topics:
Topic index: 26 ms -> 83ms.
The forum category topic index: 29 ms -> 63 ms.
The forum index: 20 ms -> 55 ms.
The forum topic index: 19 ms -> 25 ms.
User topics: 18 ms -> 21 ms.
Subscriptions: 19 ms -> 20 ms.
These numbers are very reasonable and normalization should be fine here.
Unfortunately, Laravel doesn't have a function for hasManyThrough()->latestOfMany() so the eager load has to be done manually.
TODO: topic reads