I enabled the Beta features yesterday and immediately noticed that it made Trello perform poorly in the web browser experience (MacOS / Chrome). It became so sluggish that I chose to opt out of the Beta experience, but found that the lagginess persisted, which wasn't there before I had enabled Beta. I had even rebooted my computer, disabled all browser extensions, cleared cache, etc - both before and after switching to/from Beta. The poor responsiveness I now experience when using Trello is not present for any other website that I access.
It's a mistake to introduce wide-sweeping changes like this without taking into account the performance impact. The snappiness and swiftness of using Trello that users need in order for it to be a "productivity" tool is paramount. Please have your team carefully evaluate the performance of the app with these new capabilities enabled and disabled before officially making them part of the Trello experience.
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The Truth We all have a truth, and this is mine. Yes, this seems like a rather dramatic headline. But it's no wonder.
Perhaps I shouldn't feel sad, but I can't help it. Although I've been using Trello for a relatively short time, I spent many hours deciding which application was the most suitable for us. Once I chose, configuring it to be truly useful for the company also took a lot of time (and still does). The initiative was mine; no one asked me to. But it was having good results, so I was excited.
Now, after the changes, the information, and the responses I'm reading from the Trello team, I realize that the decision was wrong. Not because it's not the tool I was looking for, but because the direction Trello is going is very different from what it once was and what I would like. At least that's my current feeling. Trello won't be a powerful team project management tool (in fact, it isn't anymore). The changes are going in almost the opposite direction. But I read comments that, if I'm being dramatic, I might consider misleading. I apologize if anyone is offended by this opinion.
The new interface seems clearly designed to be less productive, yes, that's exactly it. Buttons farther apart, a step backward in usability, more clicks to do the same thing, kicking Fitts's law. Why? Because they want us not to use Trello for business, only for our personal things. They could have added tools for personal use without undermining business use, but that hasn't been the case, and they won't do so in the future. That's what Jira is for, I imagine, because I haven't used it yet.
I can't blame a company for a decision like this. They're within their rights. They'll have their reasons and a specific strategy. A direction that will harm many and benefit a few, I think. For now, I'll take the time to share my views on some aspects, like the new back of the cards, and I don't know about any others. I'll see... Regards
Could not agree more with @ACE here. The new changes granted 'pretty' but they are so anti-productive that it hurts to my very core as a usability, automation and productivity practitioner.
Last week a had enough of these "improvements" (the new card back was the final straw) and opted out of the Beta... What bliss it was to get rid of silly floating menu bars, having my powerup buttons back for one-click access and most importantly the left sidebar was... But alas, it will not last forever... 😢
Hope Trello survive the massive uproar that will happen once this go live (look how much negative feedback a little thing like the Due Complete checkbox got, and then image when the common user see this new usability mess)...
It looks like we just got a whole new layout update. It's way less user friendly than it was before, where everything you could want to add/change on your card was in line on the right side. Now, options are less visible, in different places on the card, and it's just harder to navigate. Hoping they will revert it back, or at least offer us the option to revert back to the older layout.
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June 8, 2025 edited
👋🏻 Hi all! Lex here from the Product Management team. Just wanted to share an update that the team has been hard at work reviewing and coming up with potential solutions/improvements based on all the navigation feedback y’all have been sharing!
In the next week or so I will share a detailed walkthrough of the improvements we will be making based on all the navigation feedback we have been receiving. We believe many of these improvements will address the top pain points/issues many have shared about the current experience.
Appreciate your honest feedback and patience! The team is on it and we will share more details soon.
Other Atlassian staff in other threads have mentioned that the direction of Trello is shifting and that that shift is driving these unpopular UI changes. See here one example, of several I came across:
Could you be clear about what direction Trello is going towards? Best to cut speculation and hear straight from your team in plain terms what your goals are. Will Trello move away from team collaboration? A definitive answer to this question will help teams determine next steps quickly. This is, after all, a productivity tool and far too much of everyone's time has been spent debating and navigating these changes, when we could just move to another tool that does what we need.
I never post in threads of this nature but the new design is so bad I can't help myself.
-Almost every action in the card editing view is hidden by a layer of UI and requires 1-2 extra clicks to access.
-The removal of the workspace sidebar destroys the multi-board management experience.
You've already got JIRA for the enterprise experience and you've already got personal Trello users paying $15 a month just to see a calendar view (which doesn't even work with ical). Did you really need to destroy the core Trello experience just to eat your own professional market share?
I never ever thought I'd be saying this, but this definitely puts me the market for a new task management solution for my family.
The new layout is HORRID. Hate it so much. There is less visibility at a glance, have to scroll for days to see what I was able to see at a glance before, It's just not user-friendly anymore at all.
We have been using trello for many years to manage our soap company (filthyfarmgirl.com order queues, inventory etc. Trello is a fantastic tool and we have built quite a few API tools that work really well. It is the tech backbone of our organization. This update doesn't add a single useful feature for us, and makes the way we use trello considerably worse. If there was a way to revert to the old trello we would be willing to pay money for it. Please give us the option to use legacy trello. I promise you this is not a knee jerk reaction to change, it's just that the new trello is objectively less useful for our team. So far our only hope is that someone builds a firefox extension that gives us back our happy trello workspace.
Thanks for your hard work. I have been using Trello for years at various jobs and now freelance and it's a great tool.
I came here unfortunately to complain about the changes to the layout of the trello cards. I am unhappy about the "comments on the side" format. I have read feedback from other users that many custom fields can push the comments too far down, and that's a great concern. But this doesn't seems like an ideal solution. Having these two sections side by side within the card is very cluttered and its difficult to focus on what I actually want to be reading, at least for me.
I think a better solution would be a floating nav bar next to the card. Much like Wikipedia's new design where the Contents were brought into its own navigation section. Then we have control, from anywhere on the page, to see any content at any time. Rather than having it all forced into one place.
I won't be leaving Trello any time soon but it has become slightly less productive for me so I wanted to report that change to you all on the team.
Edit: After reading some other comments I really feel for how dramatic some people are posting. Trello is a great tool that we use every day so when it changes on us unexpectedly, and in a bad way, it feels like a real gut punch. I am sure the team thought these changes would be a beneficial compromise but it's clear that the changes are having negative effects on a lot of users. So I hope some consideration goes into resolving those effects somehow.
I have to agree with the last few users re: the removal of the left-hand sidebar. Before the change I was able to quickly read through all of my open tasks across projects on weekly team standups; now it takes too many mouse movements and clicks to accomplish the same thing. Please bring back the left-hand sidebar.
I use trello at work, but its not a daily driver for me. I'll go weeks or sometimes months at a time between regular use. I just came back to it with these new changes, and I'm not happy. We need an way to revert back. Not a single one of my workflows functions with the new card layouts. Its going to take some time and effort to migrate to a different tool. I would rather know there is something in the works to give some kind of option to pick one interface or the other, I could wait to migrate if I knew their would be a return to a usable interface coming soon.
Ironically one of the reasons we rejected a competing tool that was cheaper was that its cards where how Trello's new card layout is.
In short, I don't understand why anyone would remove the 'My Cards' view from the app. This has made it impossible to get a sorted view of all outstanding tasks.
This is all the more surprising as the new 'Inbox' feature offers little that couldn't be achieved via a list...
@Beth French can you confirm if anyone from the Trello team monitors this thread? If so, is there anything you can share on how the product team will address the concerns raised?
There are a lot of users (including myself) looking into alternative options, so it would be good to know if there's any prospect of the issues getting fixed soon.
Adding more noise here so Atlassian will listen but the new layout is a negative change. It really isnt taking the layout in a positive direction and is just making a more frustrating experience. I work at a company with over 100+ people and we use Trello for so many things I spend hours on it day. This change is just not good and everyone whos been moved over to it is having a frustrating time with nothing positive to say. Productivity is down. Please listen to the people here and create a legacy layout people can revert too. Change for the sake of change is not good, the layout is worse and you will lose customers over it.
Agree with many of the criticisms here and elsewhere. Do not need an inbox. Do not need an extra planner. Loss of sidebar makes navigation more cumbersome. Plus a floating menu at the bottom distracting and covering content. Side by side view of the cards absolutely horrendous, impacting majorly on the usefulness of Trello. Instead of seeing tasks descriptions, checklists etc mostly at a glance, I now have to scroll scroll scroll - down see tasks, up to see the latest comments. How is it helpful if I can only see a very limited part of a card at once?!
Also chiming in in agreement with the feedback about the new layout. The "Inbox" is completely unnecessary and losing the sidebar makes managing multiple boards way less intuitive. I also really don't like the side-by-side view in cards - if a card has a long checklist of items I have to scroll down to read through it, then back up again to look at any comments. Again, less intuitive, less convenient. I don't know who designed this but they obviously weren't using this tool for anything practical.
Is it possible to turn off the New card back and go back to the old one?
Hiding all the action buttons, such as Move, etc. to the ellipsis means I have to make about 3 or 4 extra clicks just to move a card to a favourite list. It's painful.
I can't see any benefit to the new style I'm afraid.
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