Germany is often discussed in detail and intensively, sometimes endlessly.
It would often be necessary to stop a discussion and start it again. With a summary of the stopped topic. No one will want to write the summary, so the best way would be for AI to take over this task.
The best way would be if the forum software did this, because otherwise you never know which AI prompt was used.
Discourse has an AI plugin for this:
Looking at an AI summary of a French thread, you can simply forget it. The result was not conform to the discussion, including false affirmation.
My 2 cents: if you don’t have the time to read the discussion, don’t read the AI made “summary”, you’ll save more time.
This forum DESPERATELY needs AI summaries for irritatingly long threads like these two
Discourse’s AI summary feature is actually pretty good. For example, this thread on the Discourse forum of a TV and movie tracking app has 827 answers (due to a 100% price increase, yikes), and the AI feature sumarizes it in a pretty satisfying way. Click on the button on the bottom right after the last post of the thread.
I suspect that the challenge here (especially in the second thread you link) is “if the writer of the original proposal cannot carry an argument in a bucket” (i.e. it’s so ill-defined that no-one can be clear what is intended), then any summary will not be meaningful.
Any summary will be shorter, though - so that’d be helpful 
irritating long thread? 
this are the top 5 last 12 months:
(ok, the second one is not a discussion, its fun)
You get the idea 
Honestly the AI summary might just say:
“Several detailed arguments were presented. No consensus was reached.”
Which would already be a pretty accurate summary of many threads. 
I’ve actually done it a few times already by just sending the thread URL to ChatGPT to get a quick summary before deciding whether it’s worth reading the whole thing.
I also do that as some threads are genuinely painful to read through… (as in giving me a headache)
