# Hide topic timeline

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-topic-timeline/254265
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [February 6, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-topic-timeline/254265 "2023-02-06T19:37:23Z")
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#### Post date: [February 26, 2023, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-topic-timeline/254265/9 "2023-02-26T12:41:37Z")

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Thank you @Canapin I appreciate the kind offer. (I had written back 3 weeks ago, but it seems my buggy internet messed something up)

Indeed, making the UX have fewer elements for new users is exactly what I have in mind. I had posted separately on this, a great suggestion was to implement this with themes based on Trust levels.

At the moment my only other item is something I posted about yesterday:

> [@Repurposing collapsibles in sidebar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/repurposing-collapsibles-in-sidebar/256244):
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> Hello, In pursuit of an ever simpler design (especially for new users), I was wondering if it wouldn’t be possible to combine the elements a bit, specifically the collapsible headers. [I have in mind here a forum for people quite experienced with ICT] We now have collapsible “Categories”, which includes a selection of categories and the item “All categories”. Since the sidebar is not that full, I don’t really see the need to collapse it. Instead, I’d like to use the header “Categories” as…

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