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theSeb

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When creating a new thread there is a wonderful feature to show potentially related threads. Could this be switched on to show the same thing at the bottom of existing threads? I think it would be super helpful and useful. In other words, if I am viewing MBA M1 with ultrawide 49 inch blah blah thread, then have a related threads box at the bottom of each page after the replies, which would show the other 4 threads from the screenshot below. Then again, might be a heavy load on the db.

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They're likely using the Enhanced Search addon modification/feature that comes from Xenforo, this allows for a few options, including what you mentioned when creating a new thread. The similar threads is also a feature that you can turn on or off. Arn will need to follow up with his reasoning here but I can tell you that while it's a great feature, it's also resource intensive and takes a lot of processing power to run.
 
They're likely using the Enhanced Search addon modification/feature that comes from Xenforo, this allows for a few options, including what you mentioned when creating a new thread. The similar threads is also a feature that you can turn on or off. Arn will need to follow up with his reasoning here but I can tell you that while it's a great feature, it's also resource intensive and takes a lot of processing power to run.
Yes, I would have thought processing power of switching this on would be huge compared to only showing this information for new threads, considering the volumes of creating a new thread vs viewing a thread.
 
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