# What is the best way to modify the new sidebar?

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**Created:** [January 30, 2023, 11:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-modify-the-new-sidebar/253308 "2023-01-30T11:54:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-modify-the-new-sidebar/253308/5 "2023-02-20T21:03:55Z")

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I’d like a response from the team, on a possible alternative for those who don’t want the sidebar. Or making an easy way to replace it or the possibility to disable it. If I have to be honest, it is useful but absolutely not necessary. A more useful thing would have been to have only channels and personal chats, with perhaps a button at the bottom as a link for normal messages. A very simple sidebar with only channel icons and avatars for personal messages. What the sidebar is now is too much for me. It is certainly a subjective thing, but personally I find it somewhat cumbersome.

Anyway thanks for the response, Canapin!

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