# Chat-like forums - open topic to the right from the list of topics

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 6, 2024, 10:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-like-forums-open-topic-to-the-right-from-the-list-of-topics/290722 "2024-01-06T10:46:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 9:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-like-forums-open-topic-to-the-right-from-the-list-of-topics/290722/13 "2024-01-09T09:19:35Z")

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Yup, I have a long been a fan of the notion panel-slide-in design.

I looked at getting something going in a theme component, but unfortunately a topic page is rather complex and not so easily slotted in elsewhere.

I have been thinking about displaying a trimmed down version of the topic (no timeline or summary for example) as a sort of quick preview, with the option to click through to get the full functionality.

We already have a 3 panel layout when using chat threads in full page, and I don’t think that’s too noisy, so from a design perspective I see this work really well.

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