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v3.30.2
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26 May 2026
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published
Chronicle of Changes.
Added3 entries
- Collapsible sidebar — a small button at the top of the sidebar collapses it to a narrow icons-only rail. Click it again and the sidebar expands back to its full-width form. The choice persists across pages and sessions in your browser's local storage, so the next time you open Cartarch the sidebar is exactly the way you left it.
- Hover-expand while collapsed — when the sidebar is in its narrow icons-only state, moving the pointer over it (or moving keyboard focus into it) temporarily expands the panel over the page so you can read the labels and click a nav item without having to un-collapse first. Moving the pointer away collapses it back. The expansion is an overlay — it floats over the page content rather than pushing it sideways, so the page never reflows under you.
- Trade-pending badge survives collapse — if you have trades awaiting your action, the small gold badge on the Trades icon stays visible even in the collapsed rail, so the signal can't get hidden behind a UI choice.
Refined3 entries
- Default state is expanded — existing users see no change after the deploy until they choose to collapse the rail. Collapse is opt-in.
- Every nav icon in the collapsed rail has an accessible label (screen readers read the same name the visible label carries when expanded) and a hover tooltip (sighted users get the title pop-up on hover), so the collapsed nav stays usable without visible text.
- Mobile is untouched — the bottom-tab nav and the More menu at phone widths are exactly as before. The new collapsible behavior is desktop-only.
Resolved1 entry
- Gives users back screen real-estate on the desktop side surfaces. The sidebar takes 236px when expanded; collapsed it takes 60px. On the wider pages — Collection at full filter visibility, Decks at full row layout — that's a meaningful amount of horizontal space returned to the content. For a user who knows the nav by heart the collapsed rail is the natural choice; for a user who still uses the labels the expanded state remains the default.
Notes from the Archivist
The sidebar gets a quieter form. The first time we built it — five nav groups, every label spelled out — it was the orientation tool every new user needed. After a while you stop reading the labels; you reach for the icon. So the labels go on a hinge: click the toggle and the panel folds in to a column of crests; hover the column and the labels return temporarily, like a museum guide stepping forward when you look at a case. Nothing is removed; nothing is hidden behind an extra click; the room just remembers which form you prefer.