Strongly recommend integrating AI functionality

[sniper756]

It is recommended to integrate DeepSeek AI functions into the search box.

Using AI to independently train on the XenForo database and generate answers unique to this community.

You can refer to the app "ima".

 

[Sal Collaziano]

A close relative is an AI Engineer developing his own Large Language Models (LLM) / Generative AI. He's working on the add-on described in this discussion for XenForo search, as well as several other projects. One being this one:

Thread 'AI generated Thread Summary, Tags, Prefix, SEO Meta, Thread cover, etc.'

Mar 16, 2025

AI / LLM's can be used to make threads and other content more useful and better organized. For better usability, SEO, content discovery and readability.

One of the challenges of using forums is reading through mega-threads with thousands of replies. Especially if high quality replies and useless comments are mixed. For this reasons there have been many requests for a summary feature over the years. Now with the advent of AI the technology to create good summaries for large amounts of text is possible.

Some other challenges for forums are:

1. Correcting useless thread titles. i.e...

• Alpha1
• artificial intelligence
• Replies: 99
• Forum: XenForo suggestions

• 
• 

 

[sniper756]

I like the "Trending content" feature, which shows what everyone likes. It would be even better if algorithms could be used to display themes that each unique visitor likes.​

 

[Digital Doctor]

It seems impossible for Xenforo itself to present the forum information available that the member wants to see. There is no attempt at trying to match content to the user. That passive approach lowers the usefulness of the forum to the user. Social Media users expect the content they want to be given to them.

 

[Alvin63]

What's wrong with just clicking the "What's new" button to see the latest threads?!

 

[Sal Collaziano]

It seems impossible for Xenforo itself to present the forum information available that the member wants to see. There is no attempt at trying to match content to the user. That passive approach lowers the usefulness of the forum to the user. Social Media users expect the content they want to be given to them.

We could setup a system where users would simply add topics of interest in their profile and then AI would relate new discussions to those interests - and relay them to the user by email, notification, or an “interest feed”.

 

[Digital Doctor]

users would simply add topics of interest in their profile

It's much better if it happens automatically in the background, especially as interests change over time and you don't want people to have to continually update "their interests".

matching up users to the content they want - and feeding that to them in a doom scroll is another addon.

focus on your thread summary idea

 

[Sal Collaziano]

It's much better if it happens automatically in the background, especially as interests change over time and you don't want people to have to continually update "their interests".

matching up users to the content they want - and feeding that to them in a doom scroll is another addon.

focus on your thread summary idea

I see what you’re saying. An algorithm based system that simply makes note of which types of topics you typically interact with.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I see what you’re saying. An algorithm based system that simply makes note of which types of topics you typically interact with.

That starts with the content you have that previous users have interacted with (content that is popular)

When someone Google searches for something - and lands on your site - obviously that's important information.

Based on that, you'd want to make all similar content readily available (not just "similar threads" at the bottom of the page).

Maybe similar threads at the end of the Summary !