Group Review-link with admin-links in the dropdown-menu

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Group Review-link with admin-links in the dropdown-menu

nolo suggests reorganizing the Review-link in the hamburger drop-down menu to be grouped with the admin links, rather than general links. This change would make it easier to modify the menu.

They also propose renaming the “Admin” link to reduce confusion for moderators who only have access to the dashboard. Instead, the link could be named “Moderation” and include Review-notifications.

nolo shares an example of how this reorganization could look, with the Review-link and Moderation links separated from Administration links.

nolo notes that this feedback is an elaboration of their previous comments in another thread, When you started your first Discourse community, what did you find hard to do?. awesomerobot agrees with the proposal.

I think it would be more coherent (and better support modifying the hamburger drop-down menu) if the Review-link would be grouped with the admin links in the html model. Right now it is grouped with general links:

The admin links could probably profit from a slight change overall. I thinks it’s a bit misleading that “Admin” is listed for moderators, that only have access to the dashboard. Why not just:

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Seems reasonable to me!

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Though a straightforward setup could even be:

dropdown-admin-links

With Review-notifications being related to Moderation:

dropdown-bubble

And following the links would take you to two distinct backend views:

Moderation backend:

Administration backend:

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@osioke, took me some time to come back to this, but that’s kind of how I would elaborate the feedback I had posted in your thread When you started your first Discourse community, what did you find hard to do?

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