Related topics gone from Meta

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Wasn’t sure if this was intentional or not, just noticed that only “New and Unread Topics” is at the bottom of topics now.

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Hmm. I can see it on some topics, but not all. (iPhone/safari)

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Interesting, I don’t see it on support, bug, marketplace, etc, but it is showing up on migration and announcements

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I have noticed on the OpenAI site where a topic will be missing the suggested tab then when I come back to the topic latter it will be there. Don’t know if it is a bug or a feature.

Have you tried options such as browser refresh, leave topic then revisit topic, logout and login, F12 checking for errors, etc. to isolate the problem.

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I currently have 2 unread topics, and I see Related topics here now, let me see if it persists after reading those.

Edit: It did persist, strange.

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Still missing on support and marketplace for me though.

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They seem to have reappeared for me. Perhaps we caught it napping?

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They are back now, that was weird.

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I’ll stash it in site feedback in case it reappears/re-disappears. :+1:

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suggested will vanish if you clear it, and will come back once you have an unread or a new…

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Ah I named the report wrong, I meant the related topics. (Now fixed so I don’t confuse more people)

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This just started back up for me, seems like just support and feature this time.

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I still see related topics below support topics Not those are “new and unread”

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@awesomerobot I think those are all read and there is also one from january 2023

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Just like last time, the issue has now vanished. I wish we knew what caused these weird blips.

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And it’s back. Again. On support. This is such a weird flaky bug.

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recent issue was not a bug, we had to disable them for a few hours a few days ago.

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They were off specifically on support yesterday?

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One thing to be aware of is that the feature is built to fail gracefully if a topic has missing information to calculate it’s related topics. As everything happens async when a topic is created, you will have topic visits where the information isn’t there, so we fallback to not showing related and queue a background job to fix the situation in the next minutes.

Unless a topic goes for hours without Related information, the feature is working as expected.

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I usually see it happen in a per-category basis, which feels odd.

Other than that, good to know that it’s expected to occasionally be missing.