AI-selected Related Topics at bottom of threads

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ISTM that at the bottom of a thread one used to see other threads you’re tracking, and if none of them were left you’d see new threads.

Now, when you’ve read all tracked threads, it shows AI-selected “Related Topics.”

I don’t want to see these. I prefer new threads.

I’ve looked in user preferences and haven’t found any relevant settings.

I use Sam’s theme.

Anyone?

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Previous thread on this: Has the Related topics system changed? {Yes}

You can use the “Suggested” tab instead to get the older recommendations back. Not all threads will have both, though.

I generally find the AI “Related” threads to be helpful, but I do wish we could set a recency limit on those so we’d get a little less AI necromancy.

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Apparently Discourse does allow you to penalize older threads in the AI settings: Discourse AI - Related topics - Site Management - Discourse Meta (which should in theory cause it to surface more recent threads, similar to Suggested, and fewer ancient zombies).

But I don’t think we have an active administrator here who has time to tweak that…

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I think I see what happened. If you go through all the unread threads AND all the new threads, there is no Suggested tab, only Related Topics.

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Yes, our administrator is now quite inactive.