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Posted June 3, 201014 yr Guys, I'm new to ipb. Just wondering is there any 'Similar Threads' recommendation block as what vbulletin is offering in their board?
June 3, 201014 yr Author you can make this with a little hook. Here in the ressource area. :-) Thanks dude! Now I know where to go from here. Sorry for my ignorance. New guy tends to ask silly question.
June 3, 201014 yr Your link links to a random topic modification, which is not what anyone in this thread wants.
June 3, 201014 yr Maybe you have a problem with reading English - but the title says similar threads. I did not link to a mod that says'random topic modification'. No need to highlight words not used in the mod in red.
June 3, 201014 yr Your link links to a random topic modification, which is not what anyone in this thread wants. Maybe you have a problem with reading English - but the title says similar threads. I did not link to a mod that says'random topic modification'. No need to highlight words not used in the mod in red. Hmm, I think what Jura is trying to say is that the modification displays random topics rather than similar topics. Whether it displays random topics or a truly similar topic depends on the word it matches. The problem seems to be that as long two topics have one word in common it'll be seen as a similar topic. For example, "Tom and Jane" and "Do you like food and drink?" would count as a similar topic since they both contain the word "and." You can set a list of exclude words and if you include "and" in the list, these two will not match anymore. However, despite filling up your exclude list with all the stop words, matching one word only still doesn't equal a similar topic. "I believe it will rain today" and "Do you believe in miracles?" will match. Sometimes it will deliver a similar topic, but sometimes it won't. Needless to say, the algorithm, if you can consider it to be one, isn't that great.
June 3, 201014 yr I wasn't saying it is prefect - but why ask for a mod if it exists? Isn't it better to ask the mod author if he can solve any issues? it is called similar topics, so doubt it displays random topics.
June 3, 201014 yr I wasn't saying it is prefect - but why ask for a mod if it exists? Isn't it better to ask the mod author if he can solve any issues? it is called similar topics, so doubt it displays random topics. Apparently (or my guess) because the mod author hasn't responded to the support topic since the end of January. :P Depending on what word it matches it can display random topics as stated in my other post.
June 3, 201014 yr IPB should definitely have this feature built-in. It's very useful. Even more useful than social groups. :P
June 4, 201014 yr SIMILAR TOPICS and AJAX REPLY = fight of the century with IPS! Forget! Both of these are needed.
June 4, 201014 yr On forums that have it "similar topics" rarely seems to display topics that are actually similar to the topic you're in. So really, I don't think this should be built in, at least not if it's done the same way that other forums do it. There has been the idea of "similarly tagged topics" being added once IPB has a tagging system, that's something that I think would be a lot more useful and reliable.
June 4, 201014 yr Doing a search against the database on EVERY topic view page (which is effectively what you would have to do to find similar topics) seems like a bad idea to me resource-wise.
June 4, 201014 yr What about if it were strictly limited to topics in that particular forum section within the last 6 months? If topics could be tagged, a 'similar threads' display could make much more sense.
June 4, 201014 yr Doing a search against the database on EVERY topic view page (which is effectively what you would have to do to find similar topics) seems like a bad idea to me resource-wise. As always, in the end, this should be an admin's decision. He will see if it's good or not.
June 4, 201014 yr As always, in the end, this should be an admin's decision. He will see if it's good or not. I understand the sentiment, but how many admins are going to consider such a feature bad? They will want to use it, and expect no resources issue, full stop. It's not realistic to explain "you shouldn't use this feature that WE built and included with the software because it's too resource intensive".
June 4, 201014 yr It is the same with new posts in the sidebar - we used that mod and it almost brought our site down as it was too resource hungry.
June 4, 201014 yr I understand the sentiment, but how many admins are going to consider such a feature bad? They will want to use it, and expect no resources issue, full stop. It's not realistic to explain "you shouldn't use this feature that WE built and included with the software because it's too resource intensive". So.. how come vB has it? I mean, I doubt they would implement a feature that would essentially crash the server if too many users tried to view a thread at the same time.. or perhaps vB have gone mad since I last checked them out :rolleyes:
June 4, 201014 yr Maybe with a tagging system added, it would be easier to pull relevant topics (maybe even gallery/blogs/content posts) that wouldn't be to stressful on the site. I currently use the one [url=" before in this topic. While most of the topics it shows are not similar, it gives your users other things to read (that they probably wouldn't find on there own) and keeps them on your site longer. Saying software x has this so we should to isn't always the best reason to add something, but in this case, having a feature like this would only help communities.
June 5, 201014 yr Doing a search against the database on EVERY topic view page (which is effectively what you would have to do to find similar topics) seems like a bad idea to me resource-wise. How it works in vB: a search only runs once at the thread post time, and later only if the thread title is edited. So the similar threads block generally lists only the threads posted before the currently viewed thread post time. By the way, using Sphinx for similar thread search greatly enhances the relevancy of the found similar threads.
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