Change sidebar community name

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

Welcome Toby!

You can change pretty much any text in Discourse following this guide:

Customize any text in Discourse

In Discourse you can customize all of the text via the admin interface. Simply go to Admin > Customize > Text and you’ll be presented with a search page. [image] Search for the text you want to customize, click Edit then enter the new value. For example, I changed the “Dashboard” link to say “Evil Trout” here on Meta. After refreshing the page the text has been updated: [image] Need help identifying the strings to translate? See how to Find a translation key with verbose localization As …

The text identifier you’ll be looking for is js.sidebar.sections.community.header_link_text

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Maybe just remove the "Community" header in the sidebar? (A plea!)

Continuing the discussion from Try out the new sidebar and notification menus!: This is still troubling me. I know it’s hard to come up with a good catch-all title, but using “community” feels a bit like “eh, that word is already basically meaningless due to overuse and misuse, so it’ll do”. Which is actually kind of distressing to me. I know I can change it on my own sites, but it’s going to cause me pain everywhere else in the world I encounter it. I think, though, with the c…