# After latest updates on 01/18/2025, "My Posts" menu option missing in left panel
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-latest-updates-on-01-18-2025-my-posts-menu-option-missing-in-left-panel/347829
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [January 18, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-latest-updates-on-01-18-2025-my-posts-menu-option-missing-in-left-panel/347829 "2025-01-18T12:41:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@sandra.mccollum](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sandra.mccollum)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-latest-updates-on-01-18-2025-my-posts-menu-option-missing-in-left-panel/347829/22 "2025-01-19T14:20:46Z")
Sure, either way works, just don’t get carried away developers and remove the ability to display My Posts for those that want it..
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-latest-updates-on-01-18-2025-my-posts-menu-option-missing-in-left-panel/347829/23 "2025-01-19T15:12:38Z")
> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> Ah, that is confusing. It may be related to the logic we had previously to show my posts conditionally when there were no drafts. Pretty sure that’s not what we want now, so we’ll take a closer look.
Additional observation:
I have used the “reset to default” button on the first section. That changed “my posts” to “my drafts,” but the link that is shown is still `/my/activity` instead of `/my/activity/drafts`.
I also think there is a difference worth mentioning between admins adding the link and admins removing the link: The default links are translatable, while custom ones are not. So if “my posts” is included by default, users with a different interface language will see the text in their language. If the admin adds a custom “my posts” link, all users will have a “my posts” link in their sidebar.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-latest-updates-on-01-18-2025-my-posts-menu-option-missing-in-left-panel/347829/25 "2025-01-19T23:07:32Z")
Update, we are tracking this and will reply this week, there was an intent to change defaults, but we never intended to have it so we “auto remove” stuff you add to your personal sidebar.
We also hear people that we are changing functionality. @lindsey will respond here later this week.
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2025, 7:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-latest-updates-on-01-18-2025-my-posts-menu-option-missing-in-left-panel/347829/27 "2025-01-20T07:19:27Z")
Perhaps an easy compromise is to rename Activity in Avatar dropdown to ‘My Posts’?
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### Author:  [@lindsey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lindsey)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-latest-updates-on-01-18-2025-my-posts-menu-option-missing-in-left-panel/347829/29 "2025-01-21T17:34:31Z")
We’re working to fix this so that you may add the `/my/activity` link back to the sidebar — I’ll follow up here once this is finished.
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### Author:  [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-latest-updates-on-01-18-2025-my-posts-menu-option-missing-in-left-panel/347829/30 "2025-02-04T11:14:51Z")
We have restored the sidebar link for “My Posts” back to how it was previously:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/294ed87a6f5548ab031d31b85e4f559dcc8c8cdb](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/294ed87a6f5548ab031d31b85e4f559dcc8c8cdb)
If you have added any additional custom links as a workaround to access the “My Posts” page, such as `/my/activity/` (ie. with the trailing slash) then you may want to remove the custom url to prevent duplicate links.
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### Author:  [@davidb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidb)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 6:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-latest-updates-on-01-18-2025-my-posts-menu-option-missing-in-left-panel/347829/31 "2025-02-10T06:38:08Z")
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