I think there are multiple goals mentioned here that aren’t very controversial that we’ll reach in time:
For custom link sections:
- ability to add external links
- fancier features like new/unread topic activity?
Sidebar in general:
- default custom sections added by admins
- default ordering of sidebar sections by admins
- user defined ordering of sidebar sections
- user edits to the “community” section
To support this (and probably more!) I think the + button in the footer will become an “edit mode” for the sidebar. We still need to figure out the design for this.