[bccdee]

> you still cannot collapse the sidebar on the left

The sidebar bothers me all the time, when I want to have two windows side-by-side on my screen. The actual chat ends up being smaller than the sidebar.

I wrote a javascript bookmarklet that automatically shows/hides the sidebar element on hover. I've gotten a lot of use out of it. It's 821 characters --- less than three tweets long.

Why haven't they solved this problem for users? It's shocking that the only way to shrink the sidebar is to inject javascript.

[Rietty]

Would you mind sharing/making a gist of it please?

[bccdee]

Sure:

javascript:(function(){ function sleep(ms) { return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms)); } let sidehover = false; let guildhover = false; let sidebar = document.getElementsByClassName("sidebar-2K8pFh")[0]; let guildbar = document.getElementsByClassName("guilds-1SWlCJ")[0]; async function hide() { await sleep(50); if (!sidehover && !guildhover) { sidebar.style.display="none"; } } async function show() { await sleep(150); if (sidehover || guildhover) { sidebar.style.display=""; } }; guildbar.addEventListener("mouseenter", () => { guildhover = true; show(); }); guildbar.addEventListener("mouseleave", () => { guildhover = false; hide() }); sidebar.addEventListener("mouseenter", () => { sidehover = true; show() }); sidebar.addEventListener("mouseleave", () => { sidehover = false; hide() }); hide(); })()

The `sleep(150)` and `sleep(50)` can be tweaked to adjust the delay between when you hover over the server bar and when the channels bar is displayed (that's the 150 ms) and between when you move the mouse off the side bar and when the channels bar disappears (the 50 ms).

If you're using the electron desktop app, you can open the javascript console with ctrl-shift-i and paste it in there for the same effect.

[Liskni_si]

Not OP but I also use a collapsible sidebar. Src here: https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/home/src-webextensio...

[bozhark]

as Rietty said, would you please share?

edit: i before e

[bccdee]

I posted it as a reply to Rietty -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28343549.