Sure, either way works, just don’t get carried away developers and remove the ability to display My Posts for those that want it…
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.
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.
Perhaps an easy compromise is to rename Activity in Avatar dropdown to ‘My Posts’?
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.
We have restored the sidebar link for “My Posts” back to how it was previously:
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.