Quite obviously I did not. I do now, so thanks for your kind explanation.
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You know what a āhamburgerā menu is, correct?
No! 
They are traditionally 3 horizontal lines on most websites. HOās āhamburgerā menu has always been depicted whimsically as bacon strips
Oh! @linguafood , I was looking for old screenshots to see if I could identify a hamburger. 
I think we all need to clarify how weāre viewing HO
@LindaWhit , I use a newish Pixel tablet,( which has itās own peculiarities), a Samsung tablet (on which I use the app), and occasionally a Pixel phone ( on which I Google Hungry Onion, which has the onion, but claims to be a musical group) and enter through a post I made a long time ago, then navigate to the landing page.
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Glad Iām not the only one who was confused 
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Just changed my vote - starting to like the sidebar more and more!
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Seems like there is some confusion about the terminology so I edited/ clarified the original post that our choice is the sidebar versus the hamburger / bacon dropdown menu.
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as I said earlier, I do not āuse/needā the drop down menu āas presentedā by either the hamburger or the bacon (me: aka snake) icon.
only to observe, in ādefault view modeā the patty icon sticks to the upper menu bar area. but the default āonā view for the bacon icon makes / obscures / absconds with a bunch of my computer screen.
I do not do āthe internetā on a smart phone, so I cannot address all the quirks of 3-4 inches screens.
however comma comma comma - as previously stated, clicking on the (now current) bacon/snake/whatever icon causes the left side, un-controllable stuff to āgo awayā
which works for me. if I need such options, my preference would be the hamburger style drop down. given my need for those options, definitely a ānitā issue.
Yeah, my comment was directed towards desktop users, which many Onions seem to be (?) Iām mostly mobile user and I never used the bacon menu. So the vote is pretty much irrelevant for me. I was just trying to clarify hamburger vs bacon strips (ie, theyāre one and the same).
I almost exclusively vist HO on my laptop, and always use the bacon strip to get to my unread/latest/new threads.
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Yeah, if Iām on the main HOmepage I see it all. I guess I sometimes land on my profile page, and from there I need to hit the bacon squiggles.
Phones have advanced quite a bit from 3ā screens.
This isnāt 2008. 
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I access HO on a desktop, nearly always landing on the Latest page. I canāt recall ever using the hamburger drop down and do not access anything online from my phone except when on vacation.
I donāt terribly miss the blank space on the left, but it would be nice to be able to trim the width of the that item and leave more space between it and the main content. I expect most of the time, I will have that menu closed, however.
Calling the bacon a hamburger is just not very descriptive. I would add in some of the straight lines to the bacon, making it into a bacon cheeseburger icon. I would like a slice of onion on mine, but I think that may be asking too much.
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The vote is in. 74% for the original hamburger/ bacon. So we switched the icon to the original position. Thanks.
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