I’m rummaging around Meta in search for information on multisite. I’m finding a lot of old topics. I have no idea if what they describe or explain is still actual. So I’m trying to find more recent information. The related topics listing is a great way to navigate in a space with lots of information, and faced with the list below, I would have loved to see the year of each topic to help me prioritise my tab opening.
This is just a suggestion, of course! But it’s something I’ve done on my own blog (25 years or writing, when a post was written is kind of relevant) – and the diabetic cat community I’m going to migrate to Discourse is also content-heavy and has 8 years of history (which won’t all by carried over, of course), so I have an awareness that the “age” of a publication in a support environment can be key info.
Just to clarify, the list of links in that section isn’t the true Related Topics feature provided by the AI plugin, nor a list of ‘further reading’ that would provide more context or further details to the doc. It’s simply a list of all the posts that contain a link to that topic (backlinks).
On other types of topics it can be quite valuable to see the other conversations where it has been referenced (Feature topics, for instance), though on docs I think it is less useful as the doc should be the Source of Truth and you shouldn’t really need or want to pick through those links to find extra detail.
I think it has been mentioned before about possibly hiding that section with a little css on docs topics et al to smooth the experience out a bit and remove some potentially distracting elements.
