After experimenting, here’s what I see:
- For topics with < 100 posts, the regenerate button is enabled immediately for staff only
- For topics with > 100 posts, the regenerate button is not enabled, even after waiting an hour
Even if the regenerate button did enable, it’s not a viable workflow for our staff to continually hit the buttons, so I tentatively plan to implement a webhook listening for new posts that regenerates the summary using https://forum.example.com/discourse-ai/summarization/t/12345. Quick calculation says that would run around $500/year for our forum. I realize Discourse is trying to protect against an unexpected large cost.