# Indicate large time gaps between posts in a topic

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/indicate-large-time-gaps-between-posts-in-a-topic/29868
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** rfc, spec
**Created:** [June 10, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/indicate-large-time-gaps-between-posts-in-a-topic/29868 "2015-06-10T21:16:41Z")
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### Author: ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/indicate-large-time-gaps-between-posts-in-a-topic/29868/2 "2015-06-12T17:29:52Z")

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Sounds like it would fit well with this old idea:

> [@Natural breakpoints or "chapters" for long topics?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/natural-breakpoints-or-chapters-for-long-topics/16461):
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> One thing we’re thinking about is how to determine natural breakpoints or “chapters” for long discussion topics – and we can eventually display these breakpoints as navigation selections on [the expanded topic progress bar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-topic-progress-bar/16373). Say you have a 500+ post topic that you want to explore. How do you do that? One way is to use our “summarize topic” function, which uses our internal topic hotness algorithm to produce the reader’s digest condensed version of the topic – by stripping out 80% of t…

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