Daily Summary Feedback

Yeah… Bert knows what he wants to do and is rather determined to do it. :slight_smile: I did make a change to the @mention portion of the prompt, but it turns out it wasn’t even for that timeslot. :person_shrugging:

I’m regrouping for the 9pm edition. I have optimism…

This I have less control over. :frowning: Though hopefully it’ll be just 3 or 4 max, and only for the length of time the summary post linking it is ‘live’.

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lmao, we’re already there :upside_down_face:

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He’s obviously anticipating the email version. :slight_smile:

Also, I was not smart enough with the notification workaround.

I think the rest of it came out pretty good though. Let’s see if it’s consistent. :crossed_fingers:

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I hope Bert can’t see me, that’d be kinda horrifying :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Bert’s self-promotion was my favourite bit about today’s:

(And the @mentions came back. :thinking:)

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I’ll add an exclude categories and tags when I get back

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I’ve tried to be more specific with him, but you should definitely cast your eye over the prompt when you get a minute to see if you have any tips. :crossed_fingers:

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The summary seems a bit too comprehensive for that goal. I certainly did have a burst of excitement the first time I got notified. But by the time I got notified for for the fourth time this weekend, I was significantly less honored. How interesting is my post really when there are dozens of other posts in the same summary?

Now that I see it was generated by an algorithm I’m even less flattered. It’s reminds me of this feature on LinkedIn:

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It’d be nice if they were opt-in for the notifications. I’ve tried to tweak it for @mentions, but links will still send something. You can mute the topics you’re not interested in, which should help. Though the flip-side to them being opt-in from the get-go would be that you wouldn’t know you were being mentioned at all until you found them to opt-in.

That one was a big one (Daily Summary (5am UTC) - #9 by Discourse). It’s interesting how the same prompt can yield different results sometimes. I think Bert can be a little wilful.

I’m not sure how else we could do this without using the AI? :thinking: Manually writing up a daily summary (for three different time zones) would take up a lot of time. It doesn’t seem like a feasible option.

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Does it work to mute the @Discourse user to get rid of the notifications?

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I used to do year-end summaries by hand and it was quite a bit of work. On the other hand, it was a huge pool from which I could draw some very interesting content. 3(!?) summaries a day would be an impossible task for a human to keep up with. But maybe it doesn’t add a lot of value compared to just watching the Latest view? Are people reading it for reasons besides figuring out what the notification is all about?

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You are meant to only opt in to the tz that is interesting to you and mute the other 2 or even maybe just mute all 3 if this is not adding value?

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I’m loving the AI summaries, bit I also started noticing these “polluting” the linked-topic results. It’s not super relevant to know that a topic was featured in a summary.

Should we be hiding these links?

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I’m liking the summaries too :heart_eyes: The links do get in the way a bit though. Imagine if my post had been selected by AI 7 times… It would be a mess however, I think there could be another option? Perhaps shrinking it down. For example

:link: Show more daily summary topics… :arrow_down_small:


This would be expandable by users. But then again its more work for something small… As you say the links aren’t super important :person_shrugging:

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Yes, we need a new per category setting for that, should be pretty straight forward

Actually I wonder if we should ever link to muted topics from that block?

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I don’t think so.

The purpose of that block is Discoverability, right? I think it’s valid to say that Muted topics are not meant to be discoverable.

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can I add this function on my own site? Is there some plugin?

This is provided by a combination of the AI and Automation plugins. It’s the ‘Periodic Report Using AI’ script. :+1:

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It works great! No notification, but the topic still appears in latest.
Could those reports be posted by a user, who is muted by default for everyone?

I don’t think you’d get a ping if you were Watching it if you muted the poster? I also don’t think there’s an easy way to default mute a user for everyone.