# Empty „Your topic is similar to...”
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-your-topic-is-similar-to/25689
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2015年二月25日 18:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-your-topic-is-similar-to/25689 "2015-02-25T18:19:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@iamntz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamntz)
#### Post date: [2015年二月25日 18:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-your-topic-is-similar-to/25689/1 "2015-02-25T18:19:19Z")
Hi!
On a new forum (50 topics atm), i see the similar topic box to be empty pretty often. I’m not sure what’s the algorithm for displaying that, but i think it should be hidden if there are no results, no?
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### Author:  [@davemaxwell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davemaxwell)
#### Post date: [2015年二月25日 18:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-your-topic-is-similar-to/25689/2 "2015-02-25T18:28:50Z")
I noticed that earlier today on another instance of discourse. I agree - doesn’t seem like it should be displayed if there’s nothing there…
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2015年二月25日 18:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-your-topic-is-similar-to/25689/3 "2015-02-25T18:45:38Z")
Not sure what’s happening but there is a check
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/controllers/composer.js.es6#L300](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/controllers/composer.js.es6#L300)
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### Author:  [@iamntz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamntz)
#### Post date: [2015年二月25日 19:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-your-topic-is-similar-to/25689/4 "2015-02-25T19:29:49Z")
The problem is easy to reproduce with these steps:
1. Add a title
- start adding content in order to get valid suggestion (the popup shows)
- continue adding content until there is no suggestions left (the popup remain)
I can reproduce (almost) every time 😄
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edit: i even succeeded to reproduce on meta.discourse, but apparently it’s not every time, but only once in a while
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2015年二月25日 20:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-your-topic-is-similar-to/25689/5 "2015-02-25T20:34:24Z")
Thanks, I have a repro. Will fix 😄
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2015年二月26日 04:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-your-topic-is-similar-to/25689/6 "2015-02-26T04:08:51Z")
I think this is fixed now? There used to be logic to prevent that from appearing until the number of topics was high enough to support it…
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2015年二月26日 08:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-your-topic-is-similar-to/25689/9 "2015-02-26T08:42:34Z")
Not fixed yet. @eviltrout will have to have a look because I can’t figure out why it’s not hiding the popup when the code is right ☹
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2015年三月3日 01:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-your-topic-is-similar-to/25689/10 "2015-03-03T01:09:08Z")