# Probeer de nieuwe zijbalk en meldingsmenu's uit!

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-out-the-new-sidebar-and-notification-menus/238821
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** notifications, sidebar, new-feature
**Created:** [20 september 2022 om 14:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-out-the-new-sidebar-and-notification-menus/238821 "2022-09-20T14:07:19Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [26 september 2022 om 19:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/try-out-the-new-sidebar-and-notification-menus/238821/136 "2022-09-26T19:30:18Z")

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> [@mattdm](#):
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> > [@Jonathan5](#):
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> > I wonder whether it would make sense to associate these things the other way round – for categories and tags to appear on the sidebar by default when they are watched or tracked.
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> I want to second this. It does two things: simplify the confusing interface _and_ make idea of watched/tracked categories and tags more discoverable.

Originally, things worked this way – you had to track or watch things to add them to your sidebar.

We found that there were several cases where folks wanted to have easy access to things from their sidebar but _did not want_ all the extra notifications. This caused people to either get much more notificaton noise – or – to just opt not to put things in the sidebar that they would have liked to.

So, we decided to decouple them.

I think we’re now in an in-between state in our design though.

I _like_ not _having to_ track things to put them in my sidebar, but I agree that it probably makes sense to put things in my sidebar if I _do_ track them. I think it’s likely that we’ll make a change in that direction at some point.

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