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[FEATURE]: Bring back the original left sidebar / Option to disable top navbar sessions #48972
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I am writing to urgently request an option to restore the original left sidebar layout for project and session management. Currently, I am managing 14 active projects with 4 to 5 open sessions each. Forcing these sessions into a top navbar makes it impossible to work efficiently. The top navbar lacks the vertical screen real estate required to display this many concurrent items, leading to severe clutter and a highly degraded user experience. While I understand the drive for UI modernization, a top navbar simply does not scale for power users with heavy multitasking workflows. Please consider adding a toggle setting to move sessions back to a traditional vertical left sidebar. Thank you for your time and for your continuous work on the editor.
Related issues
Possibly related: #48882, #48956, #48966, #48802, #37012, #36942. Keeping this one open for the power-user scaling angle (14 active projects x 4-5 sessions each do not fit a top tab strip).
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github-actions commentedon Sep 14, 2026
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[-]Feature Request: Bring back the original left sidebar / Option to disable top navbar sessions[/-][+][FEATURE]: Bring back the original left sidebar / Option to disable top navbar sessions[/+]github-actions commentedon Sep 14, 2026
Thank you for updating your issue! It now meets our contributing guidelines. We appreciate the clear description of your use case. Your request has been noted.
aithos commentedon Sep 14, 2026
If you fork a version prior to the removal of the V1 layout then you can find the following variable in the settings.tsx:
export const oldInterfaceSunset = new Date(2026, 8, 14)That is what made it so the old interface toggle disappeared from the settings (it's a zero-based month) and you can just set that date to something way in the future (I set mine to 2099) and then re-build the source and voila your toggle will be back.
aa2013 commentedon Sep 14, 2026
#48882 (comment)
Tarquinen commentedon Oct 20, 2026
We're tracking this in #48882, so I'm closing this as a duplicate. Please follow that issue for updates.
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