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I am curious to find out what recommendation algorithm is being currently being used and what are the plans to improve the Recommendation algorithm in the Similar Discussion module for EasyDiscuss?
In the past few months I have noticed a high incidence of the same type or similar questions being asked in the forums every other day and then watch the StackIdeas support team politely and diligently answer these questions over and over again even though there is a Similar Discussions module on the right side of the page where the question is asked. Is the Similar Discussion module up to the task of providing the best solution for recommending similar discussions?
The increase in Similar questions as new users join the forums presents a problem of Support Denand vs Support Resources especially now that StackIdeas has many more extensions to support and feature requests for all extensions. This begs the question?
How can the Similar Discussions module or some new improvements to the current recommendation (similar) engine be improved?
Or perhaps implementing the use of a well supported Add recommendations to your website recommendation engine can solve this issue. Making some improvements to the way EasyDiscuss can be used to make recommendations to users can vastly improve it's overall value to ease up on people resources being required when the StackIdeas extension should be improved in this area to help solve this universal resources allocation issue.
There is a public evaluation instance of easyrec to integrate recommendations into web applications. It is a free open source recommendation engine and it appears to be well supported.
Please add your ideas and thoughts to this discussion.
In the past few months I have noticed a high incidence of the same type or similar questions being asked in the forums every other day and then watch the StackIdeas support team politely and diligently answer these questions over and over again even though there is a Similar Discussions module on the right side of the page where the question is asked. Is the Similar Discussion module up to the task of providing the best solution for recommending similar discussions?
The increase in Similar questions as new users join the forums presents a problem of Support Denand vs Support Resources especially now that StackIdeas has many more extensions to support and feature requests for all extensions. This begs the question?
How can the Similar Discussions module or some new improvements to the current recommendation (similar) engine be improved?
Or perhaps implementing the use of a well supported Add recommendations to your website recommendation engine can solve this issue. Making some improvements to the way EasyDiscuss can be used to make recommendations to users can vastly improve it's overall value to ease up on people resources being required when the StackIdeas extension should be improved in this area to help solve this universal resources allocation issue.
There is a public evaluation instance of easyrec to integrate recommendations into web applications. It is a free open source recommendation engine and it appears to be well supported.
Please add your ideas and thoughts to this discussion.
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