Related Topics is now live!

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Saif announces the live rollout of Related Topics for all hosted Discourse customers, a feature powered by Discourse AI. This enhancement improves content discovery with smarter recommendations, eliminating the need for third-party API keys for embeddings. It aims to boost engagement by making content exploration more intuitive. Enterprise customers can request access. Users are invited to share feedback on the relevance of recommendations and their preference between Suggested and Related Topics. Support documentation is available here.

We are thrilled to announce an exciting rollout stemming from our ongoing efforts of Discourse AI. Related Topics is now enabled for all hosted customers!

What does this mean for you?

  • As a Basic, Pro or Business customer, Related Topics will now be live in your communities and you’ll discover an enhanced browsing experience with smarter content recommendations.
  • This means that you will no longer need a 3rd party API key for Embeddings (required for Related Topics) as it will now be hosted by our own servers
  • Related Topics topic suggestions should make content discovery more intuitive and interactive between community members, keeping them more engaged.

For our Enterprise customers who are keen to enable this feature, please reach out to us — we are ready to enable it for you and enhance your community’s discourse.


We would love to know more about your experience using Related topics.

  • How relevant are you finding the content recommendations?
  • How have you found the experience between Suggested vs Related Topics? Do you prefer one over the other?

Support doc: Enable Related Topics

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