How do I enable "similar topics" for my community

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The discussion revolves around enabling “similar topics” functionality in a Discourse community. Gautham_Menon asks if it’s possible to automatically share similar topic links as a post notification, referencing a screenshot. HAWK clarifies that this is native functionality and occurs by default with sufficient content, including suggested topics below posts. ddsongs follows up, seeking guidance on accessing the admin UI to adjust settings for similar topics, particularly to reduce the number of displayed topics and improve auto-suggestions, referencing a meta-discourse thread for further details.

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On creating a new topic, I can find that we’re able to handle “similar topics”.

Can the same as the screenshot below be achieved? Is there any bot/plug-in that with automatically share these links as a post under the topic so that a user gets notified in-case they skip over this overlay?

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This is native functionality - it will happen by default when you have enough content.

There is also functionality to automatically add “suggested topics” below the content of the last post. Again, that happens by default.

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Hi @HAWK

Thanks for your reply and sharing this information.

Just a follow up question, hopefully you or @Lilly, or maybe someone else can help me with it:

In the topic below it is mentioned about a admin UI:

How can I enable the admin UI view in the admin setting? I’m not able to view and then modify the default values. My goal in changing that specific settings is to lower the number of the similar topics during the search, to make it possible the “auto-search-suggestion” for similar topics to start showing up.

Thanks in advance for any information provided.