# New forum settings without menu **URL:** \ **Category:** UX\ **Created:** [February 6, 2025, 7:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-forum-settings-without-menu/350825 "2025-02-06T07:58:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![nat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nat/32/235063_2.png) [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-forum-settings-without-menu/350825/11 "2025-02-06T17:36:51Z")
These are experiments for improving and simplifying the “staff experience”, and our team greatly appreciates hearing all the ways on how you admins use the filters and sidebar. That said, our main goal is to make things simpler for newer “staff” users, and yet also keeping things versatile as they have always been. We’ve had some internal feedback as well that this may be quite a 👉🏻🧀 cheese move! > [@Jagster](#): > > Otherwise admin sidebar works. The site settings not because all of settings aren’t in the sidebar. I can learn new way to use site settings for sure, but then everything must be there, and that isn’t the situation > [@mdoggydog](#): > > I typically type something into the filter box to try to find a relevant setting for what I am trying to accomplish. And that (used to) gives me a filtered inner-sidebar, which helps me understand what settings-groups are involved… and then … > [@tvavrda](#): > > I agree with the “get to a setting randomly and explore the whole category later”. Although I like the new UI very much, this use case is now missing Please continue sharing your use cases so we can learn more. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-forum-settings-without-menu/350825)._