Board Navigation changes, based on Community feedback

[#1]

Hello everyone! In recent weeks, we have received valuable feedback from users regarding the board switching experience in the latest version of Trello, which is currently being rolled out. We truly appreciate your insights, suggestions, and patience. We are excited to share some of the enhancements that we will be releasing in the next few weeks to address your feedback.

Ability To Pin Board Switcher

We’ve seen that for some users it is very important to retain a list of their boards, available without an extra click. To address this feedback we will be adding the ability for users to pin the board switcher as a panel that can be expanded/collapsed - so that you can continue switching between your boards in a familiar manner. Now you can search as well as quickly switch between boards that span different workspaces.

To switch from the current popover board switcher to the pinned version, click the board switcher button located in the button navigation. Then, click the … icon in the top right corner and select the pinned board switcher option.

List View In Board Switcher

While the majority of users love seeing their board represented as very visual tiles in the board switcher, we have heard from many users that they would prefer to see them more of traditional list. To address this feedback we will be adding the ability for users to toggle between our current tile view and a more traditional list view.

To switch to list view, click on the board switcher button in the button navigation and click the list/grid icon in the top right.

Other Improvements To Board Switcher

In addition to the improvements above, we will also be making some other small tweaks to the board switcher to help remove friction in the board switching process. This will include 1) switching to vertical scroll instead of horizontal scroll for the starred/recent sections, 2) giving users the ability to collapse the star/recent sections and 3) remembering which workspaces/sections you had expanded/collapsed.

[Michael Stephenson]

Thank you Trello dev team ! I am really glad common sense prevailed and we now have this option. Really appreciate you hearing us on this and implementing an almost exact fix instead of some 50% hack. Great work !!!

[Daydreamer Mike]

Amazing @Alexandros Mathopoulos 

It is another example, like mirror cards where changes have been made that keep things moving forward while addressing the key concerns of the users... 🤞

Can't wait to see this rolled out 😃

[Rasmus Wulff Jensen]

Yay for common sense; and a good first step of getting back on track with Usability and Productivity

Now we just need to...

1. Get rid of the misplaced floating bottom toolbar and place these buttons in the top-menu where they truly belong (there is still plenty of space) #Usability
2. Allow custom/PowerUp buttons to be front and center on the new Card Back and in general clean up the mess of having functionality buttons in 3 places (top right, below title and on yet another misplaced floating toolbar at the bottom) on such a small UI Area #Productivity #Usability
3. Add the ability to hide individual custom fields from card-back (Hey, you wanted simplicity, yet you do not allow us to hide technical/automation-driven custom fields from the UI to free up clutter) #Usability

... and we have ourself a decent new experience #CommonSense

[Kayleigh Johnstone]

need the ability to have buttons automatically appear on cards and not a hover+click away

[Florian den Hollander]

Today is saw a new layout / font / fontsize. being used on the Trello cards.

This messes up a lot of layout for me and makes half the information invisible (the top rows disappear).

Is there a way to reverse this 'update'?

[Sergio]

I also noticed the font/text size got way bigger inside the card, and this just started today.  Can this be configured or reverted? 

Zooming out makes the actual card view smaller, but the text within the cards is way too big.

[jenn]

Thank you Atlassian dev team for bringing back key features to the users it's critical to!

[Katja Nik]

Unfortunately, I do not see the option to click on the "icon in the top right corner and select the pinned board switcher option."  And this switcher below is extremely inconvenient*(

[Victor Dronov]

@Katja Nik :

> ... that we will be releasing in the next few weeks to address your feedback

[Sonia]

Great @Alexandros Mathopoulos Will we be getting the ability to have the Workspace views back in the left panel, too?

[Julian Schnippering]

Is there a way to reverse this 'update'?

It literally makes the workflow slower (for me), hides automations from cards that were visible before.

And the floating comment section on the right side is nice, but makes it all less organised to me.

Please allow to reverse and get the old layout that worked fine with me.

[Umbrella Transfers]

Thank you, Atlassian Dev Team .My team, Umbrella Transfers at loves using this tool.

[Sue Newshutz]

On the new Trello cards, the "Comments and Activity" went from below the Description to beside it. I would prefer it back below the Description. In fact, I don't often use "Comments and Activity". I have all my comments in the Description and sometimes am told it can't save that much data in that field.

[Jessica Kurtz]

Please let me change the font size back before I lose my mind.

[Riverlife Church]

I am no longer able to write comments on my cards.  I use my boards for multiple tasks and being able to write comments to refer back to them is working wonders.  Why can't I write comments anymore?  Support please help!

[Victor Dronov]

@Riverlife Church :

[Design HOA]

Would love the ability to revert back to having my comments and activity listed below the card and being able to easily add or amend comments. This new layout is horrible for what we use Trello for. If it can't be reverted, please just let me know. I'll search for a different software.

Thanks!

[Nick van doodewaard]

Hi,

I have the same problem as Katja, "Unfortunately, I do not see the option to click on the "icon in the top right corner and select the pinned board switcher option."  And this switcher below is extremely inconvenient*("

How do i fix this please? 

Thanks, Nick 

[Jean-Marc Perelmuter]

Hi Trello team,
ty for your hard work.
rn this new UI doesn't work for our team, is there a way to go back to previous version?
thanks for your attention ;-)

[Timothy B]

This needs an immediate fix, or we need the option to revert the update. Who approved this change? Stop listening to them.

[Alexandros Mathopoulos]

Hi @Nick van doodewaard @Timothy B and @Jean-Marc Perelmuter!

Thank yall for the feedback! The team is hard at work building and rolling out the changes described in the blog post above.

List view - where you can see your boards in a list instead of tiles in the board switcher is currently rolling out to our users and should reach 100% of our users by the end of this week. The ability to pin the board switcher as a panel is currently in the development process and should be released in the next few weeks. 

[alx9r]

I also would like the ability to move the comment section below the card so that when I scroll down through long comments they can be shown using most of the window.  As it is currently when viewing a card most of the window is always occupied by attachments, even when I'm focused on a comment thread.

[Vanessa Bouchard]

We just got the new trello UI today, and I'm sorry but it's not as good as the vertical card UI that we had before.
I would love for an option to revert back to the previous card UI.
I feel like the user experience just got worse today.

Sorry,

[Andrew Phillips]

enhancements ?? WHAT ON EARTH have you done??????

You have broken most of what was good,

The card look, format and feel now is horrid and really hard to read, you can't have images showing on cards, URLs used to automatically show the links and images now don't. My board is TOTALLY RUINED. Its a start again job so I might as well go to another platform.. enhancements ??? FOR WHO? 

PLEASE LET ME GO BACK!

[samanthat_dogdaycare]

How do I switch back to the old version as it just switched on me and I didn't tell it to and I hate this new version. This is something that I have to use for work so I can't just stop using it otherwise I would