When a reader arrives at a Site’s Home document, they want to see the most relevant conversations immediately. Today, we only show:
Option 1: Backlinks to the current document.
This is our current implementation. However, it has a major limitation — readers miss meaningful discussions happening deeper in the Site unless they manually open each document one by one.
We’re exploring two improvements:
Option 2: Aggregate backlinks from child documents.
Backlinks to the Home document would include those from its children recursively. This would surface more of the site-wide discourse in one place.
Option 3: Backlinks based on visible content, including embeds and queries.
In this model, a document’s context defines which discussions appear in the Activity Panel. For example, if a document contains query blocks or embedded documents, we would surface the discussions from those linked contents directly in the parent’s Activity Panel.
This approach aligns the displayed discussions with what the reader is seeing, bringing context-awareness to the panel.