Proposing a left-aligned slide out hamburger menu

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

I have a long history of burying the lead and otherwise conflating multiple independent ideas in this topic

Because this:

one thing I’m not convinced on is having the hamburger icon on the top left

Can by and large be kept completely separate from this:

One of the trickier things in the hamburger menu is how we handle categories. I think the flat list is starting to be a bit limiting for sites with long category lists, and it’s not particularly well suited for subcategories. Should we limit to popular categories (globally popular, then personally popular?) and rely on the full category page for the list of everything?

There’s really 3 separate UX discussions to be had here:

1. Figuring out how to do a full-height, slide-out hamburger menu, which turned out to be more difficult than expected the last time we tried it: Full height, slide out hamburger menu

2. Is the hamburger menu due for a redesign? My personal opinion is a resounding YES.

3. Where should this menu be clickable and come sliding in from? That is highly subjective and ideally it’s the sort of thing that could be easily tweaked in a theme component anyway. The discussion comes down to what should be the default. Considering we already have a long-standing default in the top-right, I suggest we table this discussion indefinitely and in the meantime users like @misaka4e21 can enlighten us with theme experimentation.