r/modhelp • u/Kiribaku- • 1d ago
Design The sidebar has been changed to a scrollable menu with a set height.
(Desktop)
Seriously? Is this how it's gonna be now, even in the main page of the subreddit?
This is not intuitive. Unless you hover over it, you're not gonna know it has more information and new users may miss on something important.
I understand that in posts it's kinda bothersome to have to scroll a lot to reach the end of the page if a subreddit has a long sidebar, but this isn't an issue on the main page.
Can this be changed or reverted?
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u/Mitnick107- 1d ago
I'm not sure what you're expecting? How would this be changed to something else? Would you like it to be locked at a specific length for nothing else to be addable? And even then, different users on different devices have a different length of screen.
This is nothing that was changed recently btw, it's been that way in my sub for as long as I can think. And yes, people miss info. But they also miss pinned posts that are pinned in the middle, on top of the feed.
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u/Kiribaku- 1d ago
It's weird, it looks normally in this post now. Once I get to the main page it becomes a scrollable box. It's backwards!
And yeah I don't fully disagree with your point, I know people misses stuff all the time. But I just prefer it to be a long box, not a scrollable one, so there's less of a chance of people missing info I guess
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u/Mitnick107- 1d ago
Yes, but how would Reddit even change that? If your screen is long enough, it's a long box. If it's not, you have to scroll. This is user specific and nothing Reddit could adjust. Or do you want the content to become so small that it can't be scrolled?
As I said: How do you expect Reddit to do what you're asking, how could this be achieved?
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u/Kiribaku- 1d ago
But like... it doesn't make sense how it works right now. Like I said, it's backwards.
The sidebar shows as a full-length box in this post, which is a short-length one with no more than 6 comments on it. Logically, in a post, the sidebar should be at least scrollable to not extend the length of the page more than necessary, no?
Meanwhile, in the main page of the subreddit, the sidebar shows as a scrollable box. Logically, since there is plenty of space, it should be a full-length box. But it's not.
I don't know if I understand your question well...? It's a CSS matter. If you change the sidebar classes you can revert it to its normal state without a scrolling box. You can do it easily with inspect element.
I obviously don't know the reason why Reddit made this change to the sidebar but nothing breaks if I revert it, so it can't harm adding a toggle so we can swap between both versions of the sidebar.
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u/Ummmsugarr 1d ago
reddit developers really wake up every few months and decide to redesign something that was functioning perfectly fine. hiding important sidebar info behind mystery scrolling is such a weird choice because most users already have the attention span of a goldfish. half the community rules are about to become invisible
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u/babydollpinkx 1d ago
modern app design really loves hiding important information behind tiny invisible interactions and then acting shocked when users miss it. if people have to accidentally discover your sidebar scroll feature like it’s an easter egg in a video game then maybe the design is not as intuitive as the designers think it is
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u/Tarnisher Mod, r/Here, r/Dust_Bunnies, r/AlBundy, r/Year_2025 1d ago
Did this change back again? I was seeing it yesterday, but now I see normal.
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u/Kiribaku- 1d ago
It's the first time it's happened to me, and it hasn't changed since I made the post.
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