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title: Mastodon 2024-05-13
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# Mastodon 2024-05-13

Last Week In Docs:

🎙️ On Talking & Doc'ing: we reviewed two new in-progress Starlight PRs: one exploring the function of the table of content's scroll bar, and the other that adds Astro's i18n API `Astro.currentLocale` helper.

We learned everyone's personal browser scroll bar preferences, as we looked at how Starlight's table of contents (when long enough) should scroll independently from the main page. Do you hide all your sidebars whenever possible (like Hideoo?), install a browser extension to give you always visible big, bold, gold sidebars for accessibility (like Sarah?), or just leave browser defaults?

We also tested a deploy preview of Starlight with a banner that should always display the page's language using `currentLocale`.

And, we decided that maybe Astro Docs sidebar doesn't need nested sections at all! (Sorry, Chris!) We all jumped into a shared Gitpod space and let people try out different versions of what our new sidebar could look like. There's a draft pull request where you can check our current progress!

Team Docs/DX also:

... worked on a project to share and organize the Astro Docs community-submitted recipes with https://astro-tips.dev who are planning a better way to showcase community content than we can currently accommodate in docs. Have Astro tips to share? Get in touch with Astro Tips!

... released 4.8 docs, and, *totally unrelated*, started to draft a new "How to document your experimental feature release" for Astro Docs Docs (AD²). :smile: 

... opened the [New Sidebar reorganization draft PR](https://github.com/withastro/docs/pull/8329) which is open for feedback! We hope that some rework here can make both your first, and then every other trip into Astro docs easy to find your way around.

Join us in the Astro Discord and our GitHub repo and add to the current list of **968** contributors! (5 new last week!)

GitHub: https://github.com/withastro/docs
Discord: https://astro.build/chat
Daily.dev squad: https://app.daily.dev/squads/buildwithastro

Screenshot of the GitHub "Pulse" for the Astro Docs repo with statistics from the week May 6 - 13, 2024: 89 active pull requests (57 merged, 23 open); 7 active issues. Excluding merges, 31 authors have pushed 47 commits to main and 54 commits to all branches. On main, 169 files have changed and there have been 4733 additions and 881 deletions. There is also a bar graph showing the avatars of the most active contributors this week.

57 pull requests merged by 24 people.