# Related Topics option **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [May 28, 2026, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441 "2026-05-28T00:05:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/1 "2026-05-28T00:05:53Z")
Normally, when I reach the end of a thread, I will be shown a count of unread messages in threads that I am following. If there were no unread messages, I would be given an option to browse new topics, or Suggested Topics. Today, however, I am presented only with a list of ‘Related Topics’, some of which go back 20+ years. What happened, and how do I get rid of the Related Topics option? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/2 "2026-05-28T00:37:16Z")
Nothing has changed for me. I still get “Suggested”. What theme do you use? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/3 "2026-05-28T00:46:08Z")
Are you on a phone or a computer? ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/4 "2026-05-28T01:01:40Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > What theme do you use? Well, I’m not sure. I haven’t (intentionally) changed anything in the past 5 years. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Are you on a phone or a computer? On my computer, Windows 11 and Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/5 "2026-05-28T01:11:32Z")
There used to be a choice between “Suggested” and “Related”. They were side by side clickable links above the list of threads. They didn’t look like choosing between two “tabs” but that’s what they were. They were also a sticky option where every page either showed you Suggested or Related, depending on which one you had last clicked on some page in the past. I now see, like you, that “related” is the only choice. Suggested has evaporated. As to theme, … Click your avatar at upper right to bring down the menu, then click the person icon at lower right to bring up your profile menu, then click Preferences. On that page, select “Interface” from near the right end of the second row of menu options. On the interface page the topmost item is your choice of theme. Of which there are now 9. I use Discourse-Classic as it seems to hide the fewest Discourse features in the name of simplicity or of quasi-similarity to SDMB’s look under vBulletin. Which latter choices are a forgotten memory of Anciente Dayes of Yore. ETA: and just now, three pageviews later on other tabs, Suggested is back. Color me _very_ confused. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/6 "2026-05-28T01:16:19Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I now see, like you, that “related” is the only choice. Suggested has evaporated. I’m on an android phone, Straight Dope Light, and I still have both “Related” and “Suggested” . ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/7 "2026-05-28T01:16:37Z")
Separate comment from the above. The ATMB category is for questions about board policy and moderation only. Not about Discourse behavior. Anything related to board software behavior belongs in Site Feedback instead. I’ll flag this to the Mods for moving. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/8 "2026-05-28T01:21:08Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Anything related to board software behavior belongs in Site Feedback instead Thanks. I wasn’t sure where this should go. I was using ‘Sam’s Simple Theme’. I’ve changed it to Discourse-Classic. I’ll report back on it’s behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/9 "2026-05-28T01:24:24Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I’ve changed it to Discourse-Classic. I’ll report back on it’s behavior. Seems to be the same…only ‘Related Topics’ when there is no Unread Topic. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/10 "2026-05-28T14:35:39Z")
This phenomena happens only on my Lenovo laptop. On my desktop, the appearance is as it always has been: ‘Suggested’ and ‘Related’. And it also tells me how many new and unread topics are available…which it does not when only ‘Related’ is the option on my laptop. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/11 "2026-05-28T19:26:33Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > This phenomena happens only on my Lenovo laptop. And now it appears to have fixed itself on my Lenovo. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/12 "2026-05-28T19:50:05Z")
If I had to guess, I’d say it was a bad site download into your browser cache and it was being stubborn about refreshing it. I’ve seen that sort of thing happen on many sites causing all kinds of mayhem before. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/13 "2026-05-29T12:31:54Z")
I think it was nailed upthread. “Suggested” is really “Suggested from your list of unread threads”. When you have no unread threads, the Suggested tab simply disappears. Leaving Related as the only choice. Now maybe at some time in the past “Suggested” used to be “Suggested from all threads”. But maybe not. I know I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-topics-option/1030441/14 "2026-05-29T13:05:08Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > When you have no unread threads, the Suggested tab simply disappears. Leaving Related as the only choice. Not true. Right now I have no unread threads, but Suggested is still there, suggesting five newish threads that I haven’t opened yet. That was the ‘tab’ that had disappeared earlier when I started this thread.