# Split user preferences menu into sections
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-user-preferences-menu-into-sections/38246
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [January 20, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-user-preferences-menu-into-sections/38246 "2016-01-20T15:00:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@nbianca](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nbianca)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-user-preferences-menu-into-sections/38246/22 "2017-03-14T17:20:12Z")
Sure. Left-side links are actually anchors.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-user-preferences-menu-into-sections/38246/23 "2017-03-15T02:33:14Z")
@nbianca The code looks fine but the behavior is confusing for me. I feel like the anchors have to be visible other wise it feels like I’m jumping to a random spot on the page. Perhaps it’ll be good to add some line breaks and a header for each section?
Another feedback that I have is that the left navigation bar needs to be sticky. Otherwise, if I click on a link that brings me to the bottom of the page I have to scroll back up in order to click on other links.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-user-preferences-menu-into-sections/38246/24 "2017-03-15T02:51:07Z")
I think it is best to leave this alone until we get to the item that is already on our roadmap for this release… pr-welcome tag was never really correct for this I am afraid. We need to be more careful where we put that tag considering our roadmap @erlend_sh
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 7:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-user-preferences-menu-into-sections/38246/25 "2017-03-15T07:36:15Z")
To make an explicit criticism, the change as submitted is definitely not ambitious enough. What I’m pretty sure the team had in mind, and what is needed, is really an overhaul of the preferences page. Rethink every setting, what settings are related, where it belongs, and put them into pages that need navigation through each other.
Therefore, it was a mistake to leave pr-welcome on this, as that implied a simple fix would work.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-user-preferences-menu-into-sections/38246/26 "2017-05-15T20:08:55Z")
Done per this:
> [@Rebuilding User Preferences](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rebuilding-user-preferences/61675):
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> I’m tackling one of the last items on [our 1.8 task list](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-8/49801): breaking up the user preferences page into tabs. Some goals: Clear organization Update fewer fields at a time Avoid [confusing messages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-edits-on-user-preferences-page-with-required-custom-fields-is-unclear/51090) about a mandatory field being blank Mobile-friendly Here are some screenshots of what I have so far: That last section “Site” could probably have a better name. I’m trying to avoid a word like “Other” or “Misc”… Thoughts? Things you’d like to see?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-user-preferences-menu-into-sections/38246/27 "2017-05-15T20:08:59Z")
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