Navigation from forum back to main site

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The main ada-lang.io page has a navigation bar that is common across all sections of the site except the forum.

Once you navigate into the forum, you can use the back button, but you can not navigate out of the forum. (It’s like “Hotel California”, you can enter, but you can never leave. :laughing: )

It is annoying, if you have visited many topics, to get back to any other sections of the site.

The only other way out is to edit the address bar (or use a bookmark if you have one).

This is also bad for visitors who land in the forum from a web search. They will not be able to explore the rest of the site without editing the address bar. For mobile users, the address bar is often hidden. So, they may not even realize that there is more to the site.

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Maybe the sidebar can be customized to add the link to the main page.

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Well, that would be different from the rest of the site, but it would work.

Maybe it should be labeled:
:arrow_left: Back to Main Page

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Yes! That would be quite nice ^^

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Ok, I’ve added a “Back to Main Page” link to the default sidebar.

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@JeremyGrosser Thanks, that works! :fireworks: :tada:

I suppose that it is a limitation of this platform that it can not go at the top of the list? If it is possible, being at the top of the list feels more natural to me. But at lest it is there, providing easy access back to the main page.

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“default sidebar”? What sidebar? (I’m on macOS Safari)

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If this is what you see:

no_sidebar
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Then you need to click on the icon made of 3 lines (Next to the Ada logo).

Then you should then see this:

sidebar
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And I do.

I got confused: I was already looking at the ada-lang.io site :frowning:

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Ok, I moved it to the top.

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@JeremyGrosser :tada: Nice! :tada:

Thank you. That feels very natural.

I’ve already started using it: When I’m editing a post, I middle-click it for a new tab on the main page, to access the resources on the rest of the site.

It’s been very convenient.