# Sidebar vs dropdown (hamburger) menu button placement

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-vs-dropdown-hamburger-menu-button-placement/276175>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** sidebar\
**Created:** [August 22, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-vs-dropdown-hamburger-menu-button-placement/276175 "2023-08-22T12:47:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![jesus2099](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jesus2099/32/119720_2.png) [@jesus2099](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jesus2099)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-vs-dropdown-hamburger-menu-button-placement/276175/1 "2023-08-22T12:47:45Z")

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As the original topic is closed:

> [@Try out the new sidebar and notification menus!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-out-the-new-sidebar-and-notification-menus/238821):
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> We’ve been working on some significant new navigation features, and we’re now at a point where we’d love to start getting more feedback from you! information_source Have and idea or question about these features? Come hang out with us in the [#sidebar-feedback chat channel](https://meta.discourse.org/chat/channel/291/sidebar-feedback) or start a new topic tagged with #sidebar. Over the years, Discourse has grown to serve a larger set of communication and collaboration needs for diverse groups within the communities that rely upon the platform. Many c…

Let me make here my 2 remarks about the new sidebar navigation, [after having used it for a while](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/the-legacy-hamburger-navigation-menu-option-will-be-replaced/648156/13?u=jesus2099):

In my opinion, there are 2 regressions:

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## (Hamburger) menu button

A UX regression.

I often click this sidebar (hamburger) menu button instead of the site logo (to get back to my homepage).  
It makes targeting the topmost used-to-be-leftmost big header homepage link logo, more difficult.

- **Sidebar (hamburger) menu button** is in the way of the homepage link (logo used to be leftmost icon)
- **Header drop down (hamburger) menu button** is appropriately shown with all the other such buttons (search and user menu) (and also where it used to be, for what it’s worth)

## Panel appearance

Just a personal visual remark.

Not really troublesome when you click the (hamburger) menu button on purpose but especially annoying when you click it by mistake, as described in previous issue.

- **Sidebar** opens/closes in a clumsy fashion, making full content scroll left to right and vice versa\*
- **Header drop down** opens/closes in an OK fashion

\* It’s really impressive to be able to do that scrolling panels in JavaScript, but it does not look and feel good, IMO.

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I hope the legacy header dropdown menu button [will not disappear](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-the-legacy-hamburger-navigation-menu-option/265274).

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