I'm looking at a page right now that has some buttons for "Subscribe, Create a post, Block community" on the side. But I guess it's on the right side and maybe since they're buttons it doesn't count as a menu.
To be fair, those are less a nav bar and more contextual content. You likely also have the main nav bar along the top.
Can you send an example? I've only seen these foldout side bar menus.
YouTube, google drive, Any readthedocs site with more than 1 page
Well, the youtube menu is most likely positioned there because they dont want people to use it.
Every site in the early 2000s had a left nav menu
Wikipedia, especially the new design with the table of contents in the sidebar.
Lemmy Frontend called Photon:
Here's some articles written about it as well from NN group if you're interested
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/vertical-nav/
Here's an article on user attention on website predominantly leaning left as well as a related topic
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/horizontal-attention-leans-left/
I'm looking at a page right now that has some buttons for "Subscribe, Create a post, Block community" on the side. But I guess it's on the right side and maybe since they're buttons it doesn't count as a menu.
To be fair, those are less a nav bar and more contextual content. You likely also have the main nav bar along the top.