How do I enable the show compact or extended AI summaries? [The image shows a screenshot of the Discourse community forum with a welcome message and a forum post about a Chinese management interface bug. (Captioned by AI)]

Have a look at this #documentation guide :wink: [image] Summarize - Gists Site Management bookmark This guide explains how to enable and configure Gists, which is part of the Summarize feature of the Discourse AI plugin. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator memo This feature isn’t yet available on discourse.org hosting Gists are short AI summaries to help you get a quick overview from topic lists. Features Auto backfills short summaries of topics Toggleable between compact and expanded (with AI summary) topic views Available for all topic views, i…

That link tells how to get gists in use, but that button is different for self hosted forums than what we see here. [This image shows a forum interface featuring a list of single forum post, showing the "Online" (1) post hint. (Captioned by AI)] And it still doesn’t work on mobiles.

[image] Jagster: That link tells how to get gists in use, but that button is different for self hosted forums than what we see here. The button in your screenshot is from a theme component, it’s a feature of Topic List Excerpts You can actually have both enabled at once, but it doesn’t make much sense… so I recommend not doing this (the checkbox can be disabled in the topic list excerpt component). Better to choose either excerpts or AI gists. [image] [image] ondrej: Have a look at this #documentation guide :wink: This was outdated, but I just made some updates — @DonBot feel free to follow that guide now and let us know if you encounter any issues.

[image] awesomerobot: it’s a feature of Topic List Excerpts :man_facepalming:Yeah, it is. Thanks.

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