Hi all,

PHP 8.0
Joomla! 3.10.11
K2 2.11

Suddenly unable to create new articles. 
K2>New     hangs and then returns to Control Panel
Error reporting returns nothing

I know I dealt with this same issue before, but I cannot remember how I solved it.
 

OK, we discovered the issue: the K2 administrator panel now defaults to display "All" for some reason and simply crashes
Due to the enormous number of articles (20k +), any attempt to open or change the number of displayed articles to 10, 20, 50 100 etc. in the admin panel causes it to crash.

I am looking at K2's (/public_html/administrator/components/com_k2) and have set the default to "100" but this is having no effect:

<param menu="hide" name="siteItemlistLimit" type="text" default="100" label="K2_CONFIGURE_ITEMLIST_LIMIT" description="K2_CONFIGURE_ITEMLIST_LIMIT_DESC"/>

Any suggestions on how to change the default to 20 or something more manageable?