# Three bar icon should really be two different icons

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/three-bar-icon-should-really-be-two-different-icons/304437>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** sidebar\
**Created:** [April 18, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/three-bar-icon-should-really-be-two-different-icons/304437 "2024-04-18T11:24:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![oshyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/oshyan/32/212644_2.png) [@oshyan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/oshyan)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 4:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/three-bar-icon-should-really-be-two-different-icons/304437/13 "2026-05-05T04:16:00Z")

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Yes, it’s great work! I discovered it while searching in the forum for a relevant prior topic before I found this one. That said my concern is more fundamentally about out-of-the-box usability since many people don’t customize Discourse very much. I have long been an advocate for Discourse reaching outside of the techie community crowd more significantly, and it’s nice to see efforts that direction of late (free and cheap hosting, usability improvements, settings cleanup and categorization, etc.). And yet surprising to see something like this that, from my perspective, acts so counterintuitively to the established interface norms I interact with everyday in other apps, websites, and tools. It’s a small but meaningful thing.

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