Is this addressed in a bug somewhere?
I am running a new Discourse 2.6.0.beta2 at the moment, and the “similar topics” view never shows up.
Checking with dev tools, the request to load similar topics is made, and the similar-topics div is populated with content. It has the class hidden however, leading to display:none !important; through helpers.scss.
So my users won’t ever see similar topics, resulting in duplicated topics here and there.