Ah, but then you are apparently not aware of the fact that this is a new forum installation. The database of the old forum got corrupted somehow, and the corruption extended into the backups. That’s why we had to start all over again from scratch, and everyone had to re-register. 
Thinking is not good enough, I’m afraid. We have to know for certain. With an update worth over 900 packages, things can take a long time. I’ve got 16 GiB and 6 cores in this machine, but if I have to install over 900 packages, then my system is busy for at least a whole hour.
Also ─ and this is an advice I give to everyone ─ with an update that big, best is to completely log out of the GUI environment and update the system from a tty. That way, no shared libraries are in use anymore when they’re being overwritten by the updated packages.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Manjaro is a (curated) rolling-release distribution. With the exception of urgent security updates, regular updates are normally bundled together and issued on average only twice a month.
Not only will the update notifier icon in the system tray tell you about that, but there will also always be an update announcement thread under the Announcements category ─ I recommend subscribing to notifications for said category.
Yet, if you have over 900 packages to update, then that means that you haven’t updated your system in a long time, and this in turn has a few implications, because there have been some major changes in the meantime…
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GRUB got patched against the Boot Hole vulnerability. On a UEFI-booting system, this requires a manual reinstallation of the GRUB boot loader to the EFI system partition.
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The latest update to the Stable branch ─ on the 28th of August 2020 ─ included a major upgrade to the PAM security subsystem, which also requires manual intervention in some cases.
I have searched the old forum for your information, but I couldn’t find it, and given that the old forum is read-only, I cannot log into it and search for your profile page. 