# What's going on with the hamburger menu? {May 25, 2023}
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [May 25, 2023, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561 "2023-05-25T04:59:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/1 "2023-05-25T04:59:44Z")
I just came off a 4-hour straight teaching binge. Before the binge, the hamburger menu showed what it had always shown (number of new threads, number of unread threads, number of messages, and a couple of other things. Now it’s showing two categories: Community and Messages. And the choices underneath those two categories are not all that helpful.
What happened? Better question: how do I get it back to the old useful way?
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### Author:  [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/2 "2023-05-25T05:01:45Z")
It happened to me too a short time ago. I came here to start a thread about it.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/3 "2023-05-25T05:01:46Z")
Dunno, I was wondering the same.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/4 "2023-05-25T05:03:34Z")
Me too. Whatever’s happened, happened in the last 10 minutes, because I used it before that.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/5 "2023-05-25T05:04:04Z")
It’s pretty irritating.
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### Author:  [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/6 "2023-05-25T05:04:22Z")
Just looked.
Want my old hamburger back. Or at least the chance to customize.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/7 "2023-05-25T06:23:07Z")
The whole apperance of the site has been reformatted in an incredibly horrible, ugly way.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/8 "2023-05-25T06:32:12Z")
This is what the posts lists look like to me on my phone now, some gigantic font showing fewer than three full posts per page.
[ ](https://i.postimg.cc/nVk1KYQf/Screenshot-20230525-022638.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/9 "2023-05-25T06:33:16Z")
Rotate your phone to landscape view. Does that change the display much?
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Now there are more choices underneath Community on the hamburger menu. Still not all that helpful. Seriously, Discourse design crew: the idea behind testing is to test it _before_ you present it to the users.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/10 "2023-05-25T06:35:35Z")
Yes, that way I can see all of three posts per page. I will _not_ be using my phone in landscape mode. These changes are site-killing level for me.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/11 "2023-05-25T06:41:24Z")
And now the font size has changed (with no adjustments on my part) to show six posts per screen.
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### Author:  [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/12 "2023-05-25T06:53:20Z")
There you go … was thinking it was just context sensitive mod to tick off us non-merkin dopers for their history of posting non-patriotic things.
So we’re all in the same bucket of merde. Misery loves company.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/13 "2023-05-25T06:55:07Z")
The reply screen has switched back to normal from split-screen, too. That just does not work on a phone (in portrait).
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/14 "2023-05-25T07:27:45Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> The reply screen has switched back to normal from split-screen, too.
It does that until you hide the keyboard, then it goes back to split-screen until you start typing again. But I use that to “peek” at the thread when necessary. I hide the keyboard with the “Done” button.
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/15 "2023-05-25T10:58:19Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#):
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> Or at least the chance to customize.
Go to preferences \> sidebar and you can.
(Can’t do anything to Community . . . yet.)
ETA, and now you can add a section for Tags you’re interested in.
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### Author:  [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/16 "2023-05-25T11:09:26Z")
Thanks. That allowed me to fix it… for me.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/17 "2023-05-25T11:59:33Z")
Argh! What a thing to wake up to. Talk about really annoying petty nuisances.
There is no longer a menu items for tags among other things.
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/18 "2023-05-25T12:00:46Z")
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/19 "2023-05-25T12:04:30Z")
The only change I’ve noticed is that the hamburger menu is broken. (Well, technically it’s still doing something, just not something i have any interest in.) But the appearance is the same for me.
I’m navigating by clicking the logo. (The bar that says “the straight dope message board”).
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561/20 "2023-05-25T12:05:04Z")
I don’t use the hamburger menu enough to notice it being different, but the other one, the one with my profile picture (just the default letter J in my case), that shows threads I’m following is acting different. Now, after viewing a thread, instead of it remaining in that list, it disappears and everything slides up.
If nothing else, it’s going to quickly be populated with a list of threads I was following but haven’t kept up with.
I’m not sure if that’s worth creating it’s own thread about or if it’s part of this problem.
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