[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Reorganize the navigation bar? (Issue #6605)

[Minh Nguyễn]

1ec5 created an issue (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6605)

The top-level site navigation bar is largely unchanged since the last big [redesign](https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/498#issuecomment-29505676) in #498. The only changes have been to restore the Copyright link (#549), add the Communities link (#3301), and convert History and Export to secondary links (#5151).

There’s now a cluster of discussions (#3041, #6506, #6517, #6575, and associated forum topics) jockeying for additions or other changes to the navigation bar based on anecdotal feedback. Some of these discussions have converged on the same need to rethink the overall selection of links. To ground the discussion, can we get:

* Updated criteria for what should go in the navigation bar, elaborating on the points in https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3041#issuecomment-780445950 and https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/6575#issuecomment-3607600626 – which concrete use cases do we consider important enough to provide direct access to on every page of the site?
* Agreement on where else we’d be willing to move any link that doesn’t make the cut
* [Data from Matomo](https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/this-forum-is-really-hard-to-find-actually/138968/8) about which links people actually use
* Insights from informal usability tests that folks have done with less experienced users

For what it’s worth, I hold out some hope that we can still make some common-sense changes in the meantime while waiting for a major overhaul, but information along these lines would help us make decisions more easily in the future.

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