# Hiding Suggested Topics?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-suggested-topics/15622>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed, suggested-topics\
**Created:** [14 Mayo, 2014 05:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-suggested-topics/15622 "2014-05-14T05:35:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [14 Mayo, 2014 05:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-suggested-topics/15622/2 "2014-05-14T05:40:51Z")

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That’s an odd reaction, as they are a central design point of Discourse, for a variety of reasons:

1. The “pot of gold” at the end of reading a topic is… more interesting things to read

2. Suggested prioritizes topics you’ve participated in/created/watched, so it’s a fast way to clear your read queue without pogo-sticking back and forth to the topic lists.

3. Suggested gives you a related walk in non-closed topics in the same category you’re currently in. I frequently find things in suggested that I wanted to follow up on eventually anyway.

So I’d _suggest_ you might want to try absorbing the Discourse style a bit longer before jumping to extremes. Losing #2 in particular would be really painful for me as a user on your Discourse, if I’m actually reading stuff at all.

That said, if you want to remove, CSS is probably the way:

`<div id="suggested-topics">`

Just set that element to hidden in CSS, and you can probably set the # of suggested topics returned from the default of 5 to 1 in the site settings to reduce server load a tad.

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