# New forum settings without menu **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-forum-settings-without-menu/350825 **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:** 8
### Author: ![mdoggydog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@mdoggydog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mdoggydog) #### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-forum-settings-without-menu/350825/8 "2025-02-06T16:27:13Z")
> [@RGJ](#): > > Well, that theory is wrong… Indeed! 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 I often click in the inner-sidebar to focus on one of those groups and clear the filter text, so that I can explore if there are other adjacent settings that I need to fiddle with. A problem with the Admin Sidebar overall is that it is trying to mash together the legitimate independent modules (e.g., “Customize email style”) with a slew of “pre-filtered subset of Site Settings” things without acknowledging that the latter are indeed just filtered subsets of the complete “Site Settings” pile. The inner sidebar is/was the mechanism for navigating that space in either direction. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-forum-settings-without-menu/350825)._