Hi! This might be a dumb question, but can I enable the sidebar yet? I know it’s being worked on, and I am seeing a bunch of commits for it. [image] I would love to have this on my site, how can I enable it? And is it like here on Meta? Thanks!

Are you refering to this? https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/17600 Well based on the “very lighting quick” demo, it seems when you click the hamburger, there should be some sort of pin button on the lower right that enables you to enable the sidebar. Oh, and I see that @tgxworld deleted the hamburger_sidebar branch yesterday, so does that mean the function isn’t there anymore :woman_shrugging: ?

Hello, The sidebar is not done yet. For now It can be enable with hidden settings. But I suggest to enable it only for testing and development purpose. For example, I enabled it on my test site to make our custom theme, components and plugins to sidebar ready.

I have a test site too, how can I enable it?

To enable it cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app rails c SiteSetting.enable_experimental_sidebar=true exit exit To disable it change the true to false. After this you can enable the sidebar on the users settings /preferences/sidebar

Waiting for the host for the test site to see it, thanks!

I had ran that command a bit ago and in 2.9.0beta8 it was taken away

once these two settings are set, the sidebar is toggled by clicking on the hamburger (and I think they have to be reset after a rebuild)

Just note that the sidebar isn’t yet ready for bug reports or feature requests. We’re still working on it quite actively.

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Can I enable the sidebar?

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Benjamin_D (Benjamin Decotte) July 28, 2022, 5:48pm 7

If anyone wants to test this nice experimental feature, this is now:
SiteSetting.enable_sidebar=true
and
SiteSetting.enable_experimental_sidebar_hamburger=true

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