Sidebar spacing change?

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So after latest update, my sidebar margins and padding seem off now on my sites and I feel like I now have to custom re-adjust them because the spacing is cramped. what was the rationale for the recent changes? is there a topic discussing these changes somewhere?

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Not sure, but I think this recent fix is in the queue to address at least a part of this:

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i think that fix is for the review queue pending indicator

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@jordan.vidrine take a look and weigh in here when your week begins.

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i’ve already made a fix for my sites by reverting some of the changed variables, so it’s fine. it is just nice to have a bit of a warning or information beforehand. i thought i had introduced some unwanted changes while working on something unrelated and couldn’t figure out how, then i realized there were some different variables in the sidebar classes.

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Especially in large sections, I don’t like the reduced spacing that much. The doc sidebar now looks much more squished than before.

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The lock symbol is now very close to the category badge, so for me, it’s more difficult to see it.

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And I miss the larger avatars in the DM section

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This was about utilizing space more efficiently with a peer review of designers from the team. We utilized variables so anyone preferring something different can easily adjust as they see fit.

This is good feedback lilly. With our new “upcoming changes” feature we can do this easily. That said, it’s hard to balance what is a large enough change to warrant the addition of this. This type of change is a bit subjective so I opted to skip the “upcoming changes” aspect.

We didn’t adjust any heights or vertical spacing here so this could be a subjective feeling rather than an objective fact.

Thanks for reporting, I can take a look.

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Hmm. My screenshot from November shows 13.5 links in the sidebar (2 of them needing 2 lines). Now there are 17. How does this work when the height didn’t change?

When I put them next to each other it really looks like the vertical spacing changed :woman_shrugging:

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Oh i see this is the case, thanks for the screenshots. It seems docs styling has some different applications to it than the rest of the forum.

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yes i did notice that afterwards when i started looking at the new code a bit more and understood what was going on (the calc’d variables show up as values in the console). i did re-adjust again. thanks.