Continuing the discussion from Try out the new sidebar and notification menus! : @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/n…

Hello, [image] 10 Colors Tenkara: would never find that setting or know it exists 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. …

[image] 10 Colors Tenkara: I’ve been searching and not sure what to use. That’s expected since I didn’t make any changes to my sidebar. :smile: Other users had similar displays with unread numbers, see Try out the new sidebar and notification menus! - #240 by MarcP I notice there are now do…

[image] Coin-coin le Canapin: So I guess the sidebar code was changed at some point during the development. Yeah, it changed here :slightly_smiling_face: [image] Sidebar topic list links prefer unread and new over latest UX @awesomerobot and @tgxworld j…

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 ex…

[image] Don: 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. :slightly_smiling_face: Lovely, thank you. Not sure why I didn’t think of that. :person_fac…

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Don January 3, 2023, 9:02pm 3

Yeah, it changed here

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