user1 asks how to display top topics in the Right Sidebar Blocks component, noting that only the title appears without content. JammyDodger explains that the issue may be due to the topics not meeting the criteria for being considered ‘top’—such as requiring likes or engagement—and that the system recalculates scores hourly via background jobs. user1 clarifies their confusion about the weekly period and testing with a new topic. JammyDodger further explains that top topics are based on a scoring system and that the refresh job runs every hour, which can be manually triggered. user1 confirms that the topic appeared after a colleague liked it, indicating the refresh process works but takes time.
It’s possible that you don’t have any topics returned within the timeframe. When I set it up on my test site with the same parameter count I only get two topics (and when I delete the 3 day old one, than I only have one). Looking at the network tab, it’s pulling /top.json?period=weekly
Hi @JammyDodger and thanks for your quick answer,
Do you mean that the lastest topics are within the weekly period basically or that the latest topics list is updated weekly? Because to test it I’ve just created a fresh topic now to test it and nothing appears.
unfortunately I’ve no access to the network tab because my forum is hosted on a national infrastructure where I don’t have access to look into. I just can create/edit the forum with the admin settings of discourse.
These are ‘Top’ topics rather than ‘Latest’ and are calculated using this method - Calculating "Top" topics in Discourse
I think your test topic would need to pick up a like or similar to be included, and there’s a background job that runs every hour to recalculate the scores (You can manually trigger it from your /sidekiq/scheduler page if you have access - Jobs::TopRefreshToday and Jobs::TopRefreshOlder for the older ones that runs once a day)
So, from what I understand, the Top Topics section should pull out the topics with the highest score that were created this week.
Hi and thanks a lot for your detailed answer,
I think I have all informations I needed now. Notably, I could see this morning that the topic I created yesterday where a colleague responded and liked it to test, appears now in the sidebar.
So possibly the refresh take a bit of time.
Many thanks for your help.
Have a good day
