# Navigation Sidebar and Hamburger menu

**URL:** <https://forum.podcaster.community/t/navigation-sidebar-and-hamburger-menu/3118>\
**Category:** Workbench\
**Created:** [October 31, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/navigation-sidebar-and-hamburger-menu/3118 "2022-10-31T22:37:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![craigconstantine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.podcaster.community/craigconstantine/32/2322_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/craigconstantine)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/navigation-sidebar-and-hamburger-menu/3118/1 "2022-10-31T22:37:29Z")

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~~You will find the ≡ (aka, ‘the hamburger’) menu has moved from the right, to the left side of the top-bar. When you click/touch it, a side-bar moves in—it’s no longer a drop-down style menu.~~

~~This also brings us a more powerful Avatar dropdown. Notably, you can now choose different types of notifications to wade through your notifications more quickly.~~

This is an experimental feature that Discourse has been testing for some time. I think it’s better overall so I’d like to run with it here on PodComm.

Note that the ≡ sidebar has some configuration options in your preferences.

- avatar menu
- then the profile-silhouette at bottom
- then Preferences
- then way down the left is Sidebar

**I love** that this new ≡ side-bar does not scroll away! The old ≡ disappeared or scrolled away very quickly. This new sidebar stays around—just touch/click ≡ to make it go away—so you can use it to navigate more readily.

**I dislike** that the ≡ is now at the extreme top-left. That’s where well-designed user-experiences put the “take me back to the front of this entire web site” button—our “P” logo.

**I dislike** that the Avatar menu has gotten even more complicated. It has another click required to get down into your preferences.  
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updated to add: Yes, there’s a bug with the little icons that appear next to categories in the sidebar. I’m looking into it.

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**Author:** ![craigconstantine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.podcaster.community/craigconstantine/32/2322_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/craigconstantine)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/navigation-sidebar-and-hamburger-menu/3118/2 "2022-11-02T23:44:06Z")

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I’m not sure if anyone even noticed this experiment… but I’m going back to the normal Discourse appearance.

The big problem for me, was that the new sidebar had these [utterly useless] colored blocks next to the categories, and the Discourse team isn’t clear on if/how/when that might change. This category listing is intolerable to me, as follows…

 ![Screen Shot 2022-11-02 at 19.40.09](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/podcaster1/original/2X/0/0de1cfcae2dec14166fa585f4b615b90fdf44bdf.png)

So we’re back to having our ≡ (“hamburger menu”) at the right. With our friendly and meaningful icons next to categories, as follows…

 ![Screen Shot 2022-11-02 at 19.41.07](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/podcaster1/original/2X/c/cafe445796ad87c95205b73e0239a152b1ecdf84.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.podcaster.community/system/32/548_2.png) [@system](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/navigation-sidebar-and-hamburger-menu/3118/3 "2024-05-05T16:42:27Z")

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