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# Two navigation bars, and a 60-link menu that mixes reading with building

Open · medium severity · failure · newsroom.sgit.ai

## What we saw

A second bar of nine links repeats the menu. The menu holds about 60 links in nine groups (57 links in 8 groups when the lab mapped it), mixing reader pages (Newsletter, Collections) with builder pages (Replicate, Admin, Release history, The run log).

## Why it matters

The reader has to sort the publication from the workshop themselves, twice.

## The fix

One navigation. The publication on top; the workshop behind one item with its own front page.

## The record

| | |
| --- | --- |
| **Status** | Open |
| **Severity** | Medium |
| **Kind** | Failure: works against the reader |
| **Product** | [newsroom.sgit.ai](/findings/?product=newsroom.sgit.ai), site |
| **Where** | <https://newsroom.sgit.ai/> |
| **Problems** | [Overload](/findings/?problem=overload), [Builder chrome](/findings/?problem=builder-chrome) |
| **Visibility** | [Obvious](/findings/?visibility=obvious): every reader sees it, every time they reach that point |
| **Recommendation** | [Move it to the workshop](/findings/?recommendation=move-to-the-workshop): take builder things off reader pages, one link away |
| **Area** | [Navigation](/findings/?area=navigation) |
| **Breaks** | [The publication is not the workshop](/principles/index.md#publication-not-workshop) |
| **Observed** | 2026-10-11, v0.6.4 |
| **Last checked** | 2026-10-11, v0.7.1 |
| **Source** | [Review: first visit](/reviews/newsroom-2026-10-11.md#first-visit-a-contact-arriving-from-a-link) |
| **Prototype** | [Front page & personas](/lab/index.md#newsroom-proto-front), route `menu`, in three directions |

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