Drop the T3 Code wordmark from the sidebar and mobile headers

[Igor-Abramkin]

Problem

The top of the sidebar on web and desktop shows the "T3 Code" wordmark, and the mobile Home header, iPad thread sidebar and Android toolbar use it as their title. It makes the app feel like a website. Native apps leave that row to the window controls and the screen's content, and people already know which app they have open.

Why remove it

Apple's Human Interface Guidelines on branding cover this directly:

Resist the temptation to display your logo throughout your app or game unless it's essential for providing context. People seldom need to be reminded which app they're using, and it's usually better to use the space to give people valuable information and controls.

Ensure branding always defers to content. Using screen space for an element that does nothing but display a brand asset can mean there's less room for the content people care about.

The same page suggests a welcome or onboarding screen as the place for branding. T3 Code already has one, and it would keep its wordmark.

Apple's own apps follow this. The sidebar in Finder, Mail and Notes starts with the traffic lights and a sidebar toggle at its trailing edge, and their headers name the content (Inboxes, Notes) instead of the app.

Proposal

• Web and desktop. Remove the wordmark from the sidebar's top row. The row stays as the window drag area. The sidebar toggle moves to the row's trailing edge while the sidebar is open, lined up above New thread, and goes back to the window corner when the sidebar collapses. The Dev and Nightly artwork and the version pill stay.
• Mobile. Remove the "T3 Code" title from the Home header, iPad thread sidebar and Android toolbar. Dev and Nightly builds keep their small stage badge in that spot. Release builds show nothing there, matching desktop, where the pill also appears only for Dev and Nightly. The offline status still takes that spot when the connection drops.
• Unchanged. Onboarding, the loading screen, the marketing site, and the T3 mark in the timeline keep their branding.

Screenshots

Before on the left, after on the right. The screenshots use demo projects on a dev build.

Web, Dev artwork. The stage artwork stays, and the toggle moves above New thread.

Web, no stage artwork. This is what release builds look like.

iOS Home. Only the DEV badge is left. Release builds show nothing there.

Implementation

A PR is ready if maintainers agree with this direction. I'll link it in a comment below.

[Igor-Abramkin]

Note

🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of Igor-Abramkin

The implementation is in #26906. It covers web, desktop and mobile, and has before/after screenshots and the list of what I could not verify.