I recently set up Discourse and although the other users are enjoying it, I’m getting a lot of complaints about the “Your topic is similar to…” popup. I understand that you can just hit “x” to close, but can it be disabled entirely for now? Perhaps it will work better as there are more topics, etc, …

[imagen] Andy02: any ideas why i can’t see ‘min body similar length’ settings The min body similar length Site Setting doesn’t exist any more. There is a max similar results setting that can be used to accomplish the same thing. To prevent the ‘topic similar to’ popup from showing, set max si…

I believe that setting is for the topics listed at the bottom of a thread. I am talking about the popup that comes up as you’re typing in the editor. :wink:

Did you try it and it didn’t work? (Did you reload the site after changing the setting?)

Just did. No luck. Thank you though!

Very strange. I just did, too, and it works for me…

how high of a number did you use? just curious, lol

That worked after all! Thanks guys!!

Be careful with absurdly large numbers as they can cause integer overflows.

Can I disable the "topic similar to" pop-up entirely?

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fefrei (Felix Freiberger) 12 Diciembre, 2016 10:38 2

You could try setting minimum topics similar to a (very) high number.

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Can I disable the "topic similar to" pop-up entirely?

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