# Request for feedback: how do you use the topic map?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-for-feedback-how-do-you-use-the-topic-map/294587>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** feedback, topic-map\
**Created:** [February 7, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-for-feedback-how-do-you-use-the-topic-map/294587 "2024-02-07T20:09:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-for-feedback-how-do-you-use-the-topic-map/294587/7 "2024-02-07T21:46:02Z")

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Great question!

Although my feedback is short and telegraphic as I need to sleep early morning tomorrow 🕔 am. Here goes..

I’ll start by answering some some of the questions you bullet pointed above.

1. Yes I use it often especially the popular links section because I feel that if you don’t read the discussion fully, the useful / popular links are where you are most likely to discover something interesting. 🧠 🤩

2. The position seem logical to me. A topic map helps you at the start of a long topic. I’ve never thought of having something like this in the middle or the end of a topic. For example you wouldn’t open a map up at the end of a hike \[1\]. This links well with the 3rd question

3. I was envisioning the topic map to look something like this. Obvious but at the same time tucked away as sometimes its in the way with too much information on it.

 ![Topic map mockup](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/2/a/52ae73cf6ada9b26acd038d40ab79a7975c6c0d8.png)

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> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> ![Image showing where we have repeat information when the topic map is in view](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/1/9/b1908c2ab6d30905b62d8ecb6cefc53108691921.png)

A lot of the info provided is probably overlooked eg `created` , `last reply` etc. as it seems kind of irrelevant? Most of the info like amount of posts, date created & last reply can be seen in the topic timeline. However, I like seeing the views, users and likes.

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1. Unless you wanted to make sure you have arrived at the right place 😛

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