We have implemented Discourse for our company’s forums, and I just received the Previous/Next topic functionality as a feature request. I am curious to hear what’s become of this request for the official Discourse project.
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Generally use keyboard shortcuts (press the ? key on your keyboard) or use Suggested Topics at the bottom of every topic, which is a de-facto “next”.
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Both “solutions” will not work for people who got used to this functionality from other forum software.
Howerver, if the team does not see the necessity for this feature, I guess it should be pretty much plugin material we’re talking about here. “Previous” and “next” topics should be the same as in the category list. So starting from the current topic, we should fetch the two neighboring topics, insert the URLs into two buttons, add them in the footer section above the suggested topics, and would be ready to go. However, I wonder how big the request volume for this feature is: I’ve heard this complaint exactly once on my board; and we have 7k users…
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I also will chime in here for a previous/next unread navigation element.
Our community follows a sports team. Just about everything posted decays quickly. Over the weekend, a bunch of threads will be started or added to about the last game, the next game, the performance of league teams, latest recruiting news (it’s a college team). Our members like to check in and read up all the new threads, or new additions to threads, and know they’re caught up. It’s like browsing a sports section that is only about your team.
Right now that requires a lot of pogo-sticking to the top of the categories’ lists.
The suggested posts is a good idea when the community topics are not so ephemeral. Right now, when the team we follow is playing, say, Michigan, the suggested topics might be the last Michigan game, or another IGT (in-game thread) for another team (presumably because we use the same abbreviation in the topic title).
There’s very little call for contextualizing our posts/topics beyond recency.
I can see where many (most) communities would benefit from this kind of thing. I once managed a staff of information architects who worked on ways to provide contextual links on 50,000-page Web sites; it’s hard to do, but has a huge payoff when done well.
Ours is not one that benefits. Discourse is superb for us in so many other ways that not being able to quickly go to “next unread” it is a minor annoyance. But it would be a nice addition.
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Some of this may be solvable quite easily with a few switches
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Should you consider tagging here, so there is some way to glue team games together? Eg: tag Michigan games with #michigan
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Perhaps we could enable a mode were last N topics where there is tag and category overlap always show up in suggested.
We’re actually not interested in last year’s Michigan game - that was an example of the kind of algorithm-driven suggested link that makes no sense for us.
We’re just looking for a way to read through all new posts without having to return the the “latest” list to do it.
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But suggested already does that, can you explain how it is failing.
If there are unread posts in topics you are tracking we will show them in suggested first.
If there are new topics suggested shows them second
Otherwise … random
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That’s what I do, almost always.
If I have understood correctly, I think it is related to this:
For example, today I read through my unreads here on Meta. Then I read through new topics in a couple of categories I’m watching. Having read the last of these in Features, I’m presented with this:
However, visiting the “New” page shows there are still at least two new threads in UX, a category I’m watching, but these are not shown to me as suggested topics. Instead, I see Support and Dev, which I’m not watching.
As I said in the other thread, my expectation would be that “Suggested” prioritises categories I’m watching, but this is not the case for new topics.
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I may be misunderstanding, or in a weird situation that is not bringing out the best.
We migrated our forum from an existing SMF install. Many thousands of messages. Users are not that psyched, so new posts have been low.
It may be that without new posts, the suggested posts is over-represented with what it believes are the best possible but are actually of little-to-no relevance.
As all users are wont to do, I have begun ignoring the suggested posts when my first experience with it was not helpful. I’ll pay better attention.
We are also suffering from being used to the features we had that don’t have an immediately obvious parallel on Discourse. In most (maybe all) cases, there is a parallel that we just have too stumble upon.
SMF had its own problems (UI and everything else), But getting to the bottom of new posts on a thread and simply hitting “Next” was kind of nice. 
You may want to go into site settings and turn down the suggested time interval, which defaults to 1 year, to something like 3 months so it is only suggesting more recent topics (when it can’t fill from new and unread).
This is where I am struggling big time. If there are no new posts, nothing is going to really help you.
If there are new posts in tracked topics OR new topics… they will always be on top of suggested before anything else.
Maybe the issue is that you have a huge number of OLD topics that nobody is tracking?
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Thanks for all the feedback on this … Reduced the time frame on related to 30 days and at least the related are now somewhat relevant due to recency.
We’ll see how it plays out.
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@codinghorror 我现在重新关注这个话题，因为我经常使用侧边栏。
通常的情况是，我正在查看某个主题的“子集”，但“建议”功能往往会优先展示对我来说不相关的内容。
具体来说，我正在浏览特定的子集（例如“ux”标签下的新主题），但随机的“未读”内容往往会干扰“建议”列表。随着各种高级筛选器（如“跟踪”等）的引入，这个问题会变得更加严重。
我在想，我们是否可以仅通过键盘快捷键来实现“下一个/上一个”主题的功能？
具体如何运作？
- 当您访问任何主题列表（如某个标签下的最新/未读主题等）时，系统会在内存中记录该筛选条件。（这也应适用于全文搜索）
- 当您按下 t n 时，将跳转到“最近使用的列表”中的下一个主题。
- 当您按下 t p 时，将跳转到“最近使用的列表”中的上一个主题。
总体而言，多年来我一直反对引入这一功能，但现在我认识到，对于特定的工作流程，它可能非常有用。
您如何看待将其作为核心功能（仅限键盘快捷键）推出？
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我认为作为键盘快捷键没问题。
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Gmail 中已有的先例是使用 j 和 k 来实现此功能，显然我们无法使用这两个键，因为它们已被占用。但有趣的是，他们选择了与列表视图中相同的快捷键。
我目前正在梳理现有的快捷键，看看是否可以使用一个直观的单个字母。左右箭头键虽然直观，但在某些键盘上缺失，且可能容易误触。因此，我打算先从一个双字母快捷键开始，除非我突然灵光一现。
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顶级导航、标签和分类已按以下链接完成：
我会看看是否可以将此功能添加到私信、搜索和书签中，但基本功能已全部到位。
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