Great to see a re-design of the menus! 
One ux aspect I’d love to see implemented more is a clearer distinction between
- navigating the forum conversations
- and accessing other features, settings and user actions
This was mixed on the hamburger menu so far. I think the sidebar offers a good opportunity to only use it for navigating the forum conversations.
E.g. the Admin and the More… section. They are on the sidebar now as they have been on the hamburger before. To me they introduce too much information and disrupt browsing the forum structure on the sidebar:
I think these would have a more intuitive place on the user menu. I’d also love to see an option to adjust the icons on the user menu. In my experience more than 3 or 4 icons are overkill for a casual user. E.g. that’s a view I’d like to implement with the new user-menu:
Then have a site-navigation tab that collects the links from More..
And when a staff member is logged in add a staff tab (with additional links and review posts..)
