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Just to be clear, I think this part is a good idea - my suggestion was to go a step further and summarize the contents of those posts pulled out by your own model using AI, rather than just outputting the highlighted posts as-is one after the other. I agree that just feeding an entire topic consisting of 50% junk into an AI summary probably wouldn't give great results. But if you use your signals to pull out the noteworthy posts and then summarize those, I think the result would be likely be pretty good. AI is really good at summarizing text, after all.

I clicked into this very excited, thinking you'd be showing off an AI-generated 'executive summary' of topics. Genuinely curious: why not feed those posts with high impact signals into an LLM to summarize? Not long ago your approach would have been great, but now I think will be in danger of feeling pretty clunky, manual and old fashioned. This seemed like it'd be the perfect opportunity to use a modern tool to solve the problem.

Shout out to the video editor you've hired ( 😉 ) - the preview videos you're putting out for v5 have been really slick. Way better than those Canva-esque templated ones!

This looks really, really good. I'm so glad to see new CSS underpinning everything - about time! Automatically creating color palettes from main colors is lovely too. While we worked towards some of these changes with v4 it was always difficult without breaking the entire ecosystem. I'm happy you've managed to get a clean break.

I see @Ehren came around to Tailwind 😉

Looks great, good job on tackling some of the oldest bug bears 🔥

I think supporting one level of sub-comments (a la stack overflow, or even status updates in IPS profiles) in forum topics and then putting answers to questions as sub-comments would be a great improvement and make it a bit easier to follow the flow of live topics. I've found this one a bit more difficult to follow post-liveness.

Looking forward to seeing how Live Topics has turned out 🎉

I took a position at Help Scout as a JS engineer 🙂

Oh no, he's going to add that to the list now.

That's an amazing opportunity - best of luck @Jordan Miller. You brought a zeal to IPS that was sorely needed and hopefully it'll continue after you're gone.

Sometimes, turning the relationship on its head and actually employing the troll can have a beneficial outcome.

Thank you everyone, I'm sad to be leaving but very excited for what comes next. I'm sure you'll still see me around here, just without that Staff badge.

You don't have 'a' server when running in the cloud. Our cloud platform has hundreds of instances (which doesn't even necessarily equal the number of actual physical servers) and your site is running on all of them at once. Which one actually handles a user request is decided by a load balancer.