# Improve managing history on Ask discourse
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-managing-history-on-ask-discourse/378924
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** ai, ask-discourse
**Created:** [August 17, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-managing-history-on-ask-discourse/378924 "2025-08-17T09:37:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jrgong](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jrgong)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-managing-history-on-ask-discourse/378924/1 "2025-08-17T09:37:37Z")
It would be nice on Ask discourse to be able to delete and/or archive conversations. My chat history is already a bit bloated and it’s hard to keep track. So some housekeeping features would be nice 🙂
Other than that, amazing feature, guys!!! 🙂
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-managing-history-on-ask-discourse/378924/2 "2025-08-17T12:41:08Z")
@sam and @awesomerobot this is an interesting request.
I am not sure we imagined people wanting to reference prior conversations on Ask when we first got it going, but I can see how it’d be helpful for those who use it frequently.
I can imagine handling this in a number of ways, but I wonder if surfacing search and/or bookmarks there as a starting point might make sense?
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-managing-history-on-ask-discourse/378924/3 "2025-08-17T13:02:04Z")
Another approach to this from the community here:
> [@AI Conversations – Sidebar Search](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-conversations-sidebar-search/378898):
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> [Theme Component] AI Conversations – Sidebar Search (messages-only) Hey all—just wanted to share a tiny theme component I made (with a push from ChatGPT). It adds a lightweight “AI Messages” search box to the AI Conversations sidebars and routes straight to core search with in:messages. GitHub: [GitHub - BrianCraword/Discourse-AI-Conversations-Search- · GitHub](https://github.com/BrianCraword/Discourse-AI-Conversations-Search-/tree/main)What it does Puts a compact search box at the top of the AI Conversations sidebars (main list + single chat). Searches only your messag…
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-managing-history-on-ask-discourse/378924/4 "2025-08-17T22:54:17Z")
The implementation in core is a bit better than the one we have on “ask”
@awesomerobot I wonder if there is an easy way to port over to the format `/discourse-ai/ai-bot/conversations` uses? (it splits stuff in dates)
I also think there is merit in allowing users to easily remove conversations from the sidebar, this control on ChatGPT is great that way:
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-managing-history-on-ask-discourse/378924/5 "2025-08-19T21:01:41Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> @awesomerobot I wonder if there is an easy way to port over to the format `/discourse-ai/ai-bot/conversations` uses? (it splits stuff in dates)
Yeah [ask.discourse.com](http://ask.discourse.com) was built before we moved these features into the AI plugin, so step 1 is removing our custom implementation… that’s done now [DEV: remove custom homepage and replace with our built-ai AI conversations page by awesomerobot · Pull Request #28 · discourse/discourse-ask-theme · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-ask-theme/pull/28)
So now we’re using `/discourse-ai/ai-bot/conversations` and have the “real” sidebar with sectioning. This results in a lot less custom stuff to maintain too, which is nice.
Removing conversations should be doable as a follow-up, I think we already have an API for inline buttons in sidebar items because we use them to manage chat DMs