PERF: stop counting participants on very large topics

This query gets very expensive and can be bypassed on large topics

lib/topic_view.rb

@@ -296,10 +296,18 @@ class TopicView
     end
   end
 
+  # if a topic has more that N posts no longer attempt to
+  # get accurate participant count, instead grab cached count
+  # from topic
+  MAX_POSTS_COUNT_PARTICIPANTS = 500
+
   def participant_count
     @participant_count ||=
       begin
         if participants.size == MAX_PARTICIPANTS
+          if unfiltered_post_ids.length > MAX_POSTS_COUNT_PARTICIPANTS
+            @topic.participant_count
+          else
             sql = <<~SQL
               SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT user_id)
               FROM posts
@@ -307,6 +315,7 @@ class TopicView
               AND user_id IS NOT NULL
             SQL
             DB.query_single(sql, post_ids: unfiltered_post_ids).first.to_i
+          end
         else
           participants.size
         end