@Canapin Please forgive the ignorant question, it’s been awhile since I’ve been here on meta and I’ve not made many CSS changes to my instance in the past couple of years.
What CSS did you use to customize the unread/new/draft in the sidebar? I’ve been searching and not sure what to use.
Interesting. In one of the split off topics, they point out that the dots or unread count can now be set by users. It can be found under Preferences>Sidebar>Navigation. I wish it could be set as default by admin. Users on my instance are not tech savvy and would never find that setting or know it exists.
Both here on meta.discourse and on my instance it looks like the following for me, in grey text.
I think create a topic where you introduce the new sidebar could be a good solution for this. You can easily navigate your users to the correct place with a link, using the /my/ parameter.