I do think there are some severe issues with our algorithm:
I mean really “Discourse in Croatian” how is that even relevant.
Or this recent question:
Only relevant hit is the actual topic that the user posted.
Its totally pot luck to get some sort of useful result and the blue color makes it terribly hard to read.
Compared this to StackOverflow that only uses title:
At stack the feature is far less intrusive, and hits better cause there is far better body of work to match by.
My recommendation:
- The blue is very hard to read … almost blinding, I prefer a much toned down styling:
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Consider a full screen topic composer for TL0 and TL1, that way we have lots of room on the screen to teach people and can follow the same pattern used at Stack for similar topics.
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Improve results a lot, currently they are just too random.
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Allow TL2 and above to opt-out of this feature
As it stands I feel the feature needs lots of love.