Discourse forums are highly customisable and it is hard to get the right setup on the first time. We want to make it as simple as possible for everyone to find what they need. A part of this is looking at the various quick links in the left sidebar. This sidebar is entirely customisable, as such we …

I only use the ‘latest topics’ link to see the list of all posts - it used to be always visible but changed to be behind the ‘more…’ link recently

Oops! That was my fault. Note that is the same as selecting latest in the top bar: [latest] which is what I pretty much always use. Would that suffice for your use case too @Scott ? Speaking of the top bar, “Docs” and “Groups” is available there, so there isn’t too much loss in functionality by…

The top bar isn’t always available, e.g. inside a post there’s only the side bar [image]

I agree with @Scott : the most used shortcuts should be in the sidebar because it’s always visible.

Maybe I could add what inspired my query is the Discourse Meta forum: Discourse Meta - The Official Support Forum for Discourse Its default page is the latest topics and the sidebar is minimalist. “Topics” points to the latest topics.

[image] clairecarouge: I agree with @Scott : the most used shortcuts should be in the sidebar because it’s always visible. Okey doke. So do we have agreement on what should be shown by default and otherwise hidden under more? I’m seeing this as what people want to see: My Posts Latest To…

Either: Latest Topics My Posts Or Latest Topics and everything else under More. If I’m the only one wanting “My Posts” then it’s not worth keeping outside More. But in any case, put “Latest Topics” first.

Left sidebar: is the top menu useful?

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