# Tags block is conflicting with other tag dropdowns

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-block-is-conflicting-with-other-tag-dropdowns/404723
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** right-sidebar-blocks, fixed
**Created:** [June 8, 2026, 1:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-block-is-conflicting-with-other-tag-dropdowns/404723 "2026-06-08T01:47:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![xlg256](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xlg256/32/555005_2.png) [@xlg256](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xlg256)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2026, 1:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-block-is-conflicting-with-other-tag-dropdowns/404723/1 "2026-06-08T01:47:01Z")

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Hi team! Thank you for this amazing component! I’m using it on my community, **[Jiwa.now](https://jiwa.now)**, and it looks absolutely fantastic.

I wanted to report a quick data-hijacking/conflict bug regarding the **“Tags” block**.

**🐛 The Bug:** When the “Tags” block is added to the Right Sidebar, it seems to consume the tag data upon the initial page load. As a result, the native Discourse tag dropdown in the top header renders as a massive empty shell (the data is missing).

**🔄 Steps to Reproduce:**

1. Add the “popular-tags” block to the Right Sidebar.

2. Go to the homepage and click the native tag dropdown in the top navigation bar.

3. **Result:** The dropdown expands but is completely blank.

**✅ Workaround:** I temporarily removed the “Tags” block from the sidebar, and the native dropdown immediately returned to normal.

 ![JIWA.NOW](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/b/4/ab47c89dc44555851b573f913702c3215350d37b.jpeg)

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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2026, 7:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-block-is-conflicting-with-other-tag-dropdowns/404723/2 "2026-06-08T07:06:46Z")

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Can repro on try.discourse so looks legit

@martin I think youre interrupt, can you triage?

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### Author: ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2026, 3:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-block-is-conflicting-with-other-tag-dropdowns/404723/4 "2026-06-09T03:56:31Z")

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Thanks for the report, this fixes the issue once merged:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse-right-sidebar-blocks/pull/104>
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> Avoid hydrating the shared \`site.top\_tags\` payload in the sidebar block,
> since …the native \`TagDrop\` reads that same raw data for its menu. Render
> popular tags from the serialized tag data directly so the sidebar no
> longer interferes with the header tag dropdown.
> 
> c.f. https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-block-is-conflicting-with-other-tag-dropdowns/404723
> 
> \*\*Before\*\*
> 
> \<img width="1101" height="254" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/60af56e2-aafd-4ad0-9bed-abc6807334bc" /\>
> 
> \*\*After\*\*
> 
> \<img width="1112" height="322" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7ec35981-d833-4b1e-839f-c4cb5f0db378" /\>

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2026, 2:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-block-is-conflicting-with-other-tag-dropdowns/404723/5 "2026-06-10T02:04:11Z")

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