LaurenN
January 6, 2022, 7:25pm
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Hi all,
Considering how Discourse determines what Suggested Topics to show , is there a way to also determine suggested topics based on relevance to the current topic the user is reading? Instead of showing topics that are completely unrelated to the topic I have clicked on? Or is best practice to limit suggested to category?
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sam
March 31, 2023, 8:05am
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Thoughts on current algorithm on meta?
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On meta I notice Related and Suggested topics.
Is there a setting I need to enable so I can display both sets of links on my forum?
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That’s actually an upcoming feature that should be available more widely soon.
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Just to round this out - Discourse AI now has the Related Topics available:
Semantic Related Topics
When you get to the end of a topic, Discourse presents you with 5 suggestions of topics to read next. Nowadays, we pick 5 random topics for anonymous users and use the unread topics for logged-in users to populate that list, making it quick to generate but not very useful when you are researching a specific subject.
With the new Semantic Related Topics feature, we will use Semantic Textual Similarity between the current topic and all the other topics in your instance to suggest topics that are potentially more relevant to what a person is looking for.
This is enabled here on Meta for all, including anon
Semantic Search
This used the same logic we used for semantic related topics, but to power search results.
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