# Summarize large topics by default

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-large-topics-by-default/52506
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 4, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-large-topics-by-default/52506 "2016-11-04T16:46:20Z")
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### Author: ![Tom\_Newsom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tom_newsom/32/115981_2.png) [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-large-topics-by-default/52506/2 "2016-11-04T23:22:02Z")

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Or alternatively, summarise the first T - N posts, where N is configurable and T is the total number of posts in the thread.

Or even smarter, summarise by “chapters” as defined by

> [@Natural breakpoints or "chapters" for long topics?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/natural-breakpoints-or-chapters-for-long-topics/16461/):
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> One thing we’re thinking about is how to determine natural breakpoints or “chapters” for long discussion topics – and we can eventually display these breakpoints as navigation selections on [the expanded topic progress bar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-topic-progress-bar/16373). Say you have a 500+ post topic that you want to explore. How do you do that? One way is to use our “summarize topic” function, which uses our internal topic hotness algorithm to produce the reader’s digest condensed version of the topic – by stripping out 80% of t…

Which covers some of the same ground gone over on several threads today and yesterday

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