Hi, My Discourse shows unread counts as numbers (e.g., “71 unread”) in the sidebar (Navigation menu sidebar) I want to display them as a dot instead, like on meta.discourse.org . Is there a setting in the Admin UI to do this, and if so, where is it? Thanks! <a class="lightbox" href="https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/original/4X/c/f/f/cffd585aacfd3da23d40867d024f39f7b96611a3.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/tFXCNGqoomDy1AfPV4QQvBNISgr.png?dl=1" title="The image is a screenshot of the Discourse interface displaying a list of categories for post navigation, including Documentation, Community wiki, Announcements, Support, Bug, UX, Feature, Data & reporting, Community, Plugin, Theme, and Theme component. (Captioned by AI)" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">[The image is a screenshot of the Dis…

There is also a site setting to configure the default for the option in the user preferences Lilly showed you [image] Configuring the default sidebar for your users default sidebar show count of new items The setting controls how new items are shown in the sidebar: Dots/Badges Counts [S…

How to change unread count to a dot in navigation sidebar?

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Lilly (Lillian Louis) June 8, 2025, 5:52am 3

this is actually a user preference setting in /my/preferences/navigation-menu

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How to change unread count to a dot in navigation sidebar?

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