Discourse Sidebar can now be customized

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The latest update of Discourse has a neat feature, the sidebar can be customized.

3.1.0.beta5: Customizable Community section, Improvements to Admin...

As a suggestion, we could make the forum more user-friendly. It’s obviously already working fine, just proposing a possible improvement. In the sidebar is a default “community” section. In this section you can add your own menu items, which could point to forum topics or external links. Just my 2 cents proposal for the community section:

• Link to the mission of Fairphone and additional information (could be: Our mission - We care for people and planet
• Link to ✏ The Forum Guide to... Fairphone Support
• Link to 👼 The Fairphone Angels Program and Map (Local support by community members)

I also manage my own Discourse forum, there you can see something similar:

TZM Forum

[leomakkinje]

The admins and moderators tested the new sidebar options in our sandbox environment. Alas, nobody liked the new look & feel so we decided to stick with the Legacy sidebar.

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Thanks for testing and considering it! I was looking forward to the sidebar. Once you get used to it, it really becomes a productivity booster and it can be customized to great extend, also by the users themselves. Maybe something for another time.