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Proposing a left-aligned slide out hamburger menu

Continuing the discussion from Full height, slide out hamburger menu: Here, I will make my argument in support of the left-aligned hamburger menu convention, combined with a reworking of Discourse’s default navigation of index pages. Upon entering meta.discourse.org, you would see this: [image] Drilling into a Category, you see this: [image] Hamburger menu has absorbed the top sub-navigation. Hamburger menu is shown by default on index pages (on Desktop, not Mobile) Fills the same nee…

Idea for new navigation scheme to re-purpose the hamburger

I’ve been thinking over the navigational scheme of Discourse, especially with the new menu, and the issues with the hamburger menu that have been highlighted recently in other threads. I’d like to present another proposal for a potential re-architecture of the page navigation. Fix the issues with the hamburger First, the potential issues of the hamburger menu that I’d like to fix: Icon ambiguous or unknown: Many users just don’t get the icon without training. No information scen…