Related Topics

[JammyDodger]

@Don

Love the Discourse Ai Related Topics section so much easier to organize and find topics.

It’s great isn’t it. I keep getting lost in little side missions

[merefield (Robert)]

Wait: has this feature even been announced yet?

[JammyDodger]

Not properly, but it’s been a little Easter Egg at the bottom of your Meta topics for a little while now.

[merefield (Robert)]

Wow, you are so right, it is so much more appropriate a selection:

This to me is kind of how it should have always worked, but AI capability has finally delivered it?

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

This egg hatched a some time ago, so maybe it’s time to teach it to fly more freely

[JammyDodger]

All in good time my dear Jagster, all in good time.

[Lilly]

love it. its like having a rabbit hole portal on every page lol

[ondrej]

Oh I thought the ‘suggested topics’ had been renamed to ‘related topics’ I never thought of scrolling down further. This is indeed helpful

[Falco]

@ondrej

Oh I thought the ‘suggested topics’ had been renamed to ‘related topics’ I never thought of scrolling down further. This is indeed helpful

When I first added it here on Meta, and for a few weeks, it was completely replacing the existing Suggested Topics for anons, but it was improved and now it has it’s own section and works with logged in users too.

There is at least one other easter egg from the same batch as this too

[matenauta]

I merged suggested and related topics using CSS to simplify and it looks more useful.

AI can really improve Discourse search too. It’s really cool you are digging into the real use cases here.

Kudos as always

[Falco]

@matenauta

I merged suggested and related topics using CSS to simplify and it looks more useful.

Yes, current design is more of a Proof of Concept of using AI for semantic similarity, our designers are still working on integrating that more nicely with Discourse design language.

@matenauta

AI can really improve Discourse search too. It’s really cool you are digging into the real use cases here.

Yes, but the asymmetric nature of search, when compared to the symmetric nature of related topics, proved to be a bit more complicated to get consistent results. We still working on it.

[Lilly]

@Falco

There is at least one other easter egg from the same batch as this too

lol i went looking but came up empty handed so far. i’m too old for easter egg hunts!

[JammyDodger]

Just in case anyone missed it, it’s been announced in the latest blog:

Introducing Discourse AI

We are happy to announce Discourse AI, a new plugin and our one-stop solution for integrating Artificial Intelligence and Discourse, enabling both new features and enhancing existing ones. With this first release, we are shipping 7 different Discourse AI modules to help community managers, members, and moderators with various tasks from sentiment analysis to automated proofreading and suggested edits. Read along and find out more details about each of these features as well as what is coming up …

[Lilly]

so this is available to enterprise level customers only?

[Falco]

At the moment we are collecting interest of Enterprise customers to be the first to use the new Discourse AI features, which includes Related Topics. We plan on rolling it out, but there are several moving parts that we need to work on before committing to that.

[Lilly]

@Falco

We plan on rolling it out, but there are several moving parts that we need to work on before committing to that.

ok great. thanks for the update. love the related topics feature but some of those other AI ones look good too. great work as always @team.

[Lhc_fl (Linca)]

I suddenly found out today that the team at Discourse changed the UI of Suggested/Related. The tabbed UI is really intuitive, morden, clean and I really like the design!

[Lilly]

Yes I like it much better now too.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Thanks heaps for calling this out

This was @tynaut’s fantastic design