It used to be at the top and be called the 'header'. We deliberately moved it to the right (for desktop/laptop, at least) and renamed it to 'description', to solve two issues:

1. We didn't want people to have to scroll past a large amount of text before getting to the conversations. This is still an issue. Even if the wikitext is short, it's difficult to technically ensure that the resulting rendered content is short.

2. We wanted to allow people to have the main discussion content be wide or narrow, and toggling the sidebar is one way to do that.

I suggest closing this.

In T115690#1735734, @Mattflaschen wrote:

It used to be at the top and be called the 'header'. We deliberately moved it to the right (for desktop/laptop, at least) and renamed it to 'description', to solve two issues:

1. We didn't want people to have to scroll past a large amount of text before getting to the conversations. This is still an issue. Even if the wikitext is short, it's difficult to technically ensure that the resulting rendered content is short.

I understand that, that's why the idea is to have a limited high, just for one sentence or a nav bar like in my example. Some people requested to have the side bar moved on top, and I've explained them it was not possible for the reasons you give me. But a narrow nav bar is not an problem imho.

2. We wanted to allow people to have the main discussion content be wide or narrow, and toggling the sidebar is one way to do that.

If the top nav bar is between page title and the board itself, the toggle is still possible.

I suggest closing this.

Not me :)