Permanent Sidebar (instead of collapsable)

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Originally Posted by Taurus MFF

any users who had the sidebar collapsed before commenting out the code will have a blank space where the sidebar should be located.

how do we force the sidebar to re-open for those who had it closed and can no longer click the collapse/expand button?

That is strange. I tried it at my test forum right now and I couldn''t reproduce the issue that you are getting. The sidebar closes fine without any blanc space when disabling the collapse button.

Can you try to undo the edit, disable the forum sidebar/s, then re-enable them again and re-do the edit that hides the collapse button and see if it would help.