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@Julian Schnippering! Thank you so much for your feedback and for sharing your frustration with the current width of the comment column. We understand how important this is to your workflow, and I want to assure you that we’re looking into ways to increase the panel width.
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August 19, 2025 edited
Hi @Michael Stephenson! We realize how important these buttons are for yours and other workflow and are currently exploring ways to restore ease of access. I do not have any details I can share at the moment as we are designing and user testing a few different options, but we will share more when we can.
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August 19, 2025 edited
@jenn Sorry for the delay! Here is some details about how we announced the changes, when, and in what form:
Open Beta was announced at TEAM ’25 on April 8th 2025 which was accompanied by a in-product modal also announcing the Open Beta and an invitation to join. Even if the user declined the initial invite to join the Beta, we added a new BETA button to the top navigation so they could try it at any time before GA.
From May 7th to May 17th, we rolled out a pop-over modal notification that GA was starting on May 22nd for any user that never tried the beta experience and again invited them to try it out. Users should have seen this notification when they next logged-in.
From July 1st to July 2nd, we showed a pop-over modal notification that GA was starting soon for any user thattriedthe beta experience.
Each of there announcements included info about the new Trello and timeframe directly in product and also linked to our announcement here.
I need a timeline when you're going to make these changes that are posted in this long thread of comments. Specifically sidebar. And the ability to move the panels around, there's a lot of complaints. And I don't see any direct. Timelines of solutions. I have many things to do, and all of the changes that you've been making is nothing but an interruption for the progress of other developments.. As such, I've been reading through these comments trying to evaluate if I am leaving or staying... Most likely jumping ship because I don't see you giving any timelines to put simple things back in to the program, such as the sidebar. Since you have made these changes, I have effectively quit using the program except for very lightly and I am now searching for another solution....
Can you give a direct answer when you will have these changes re-implemented into the program?
The ability to pin the board switcher as a panel (left hand side of the screen) shipped in July. To pin the the board switcher click on the "Switch boards" button in the island and the click the little "pin" icon at top right corner of the board switcher. This will give you a left hand board/workspace view navigation that spans across workspaces. There is also a little demo in the original article here.
@Alexandros Mathopoulos You are actually trying to missunderstood what the problem is? You can't be this stupid. Stop trying to make us look stupid for not calling you out on this farce. Those things are not solutions but distraction at best at worst complete ignorance.
@Prokop Smetana Ease up there Tiger ... We are all here because we don't like the update ... but in fairness Alexandros has been the lone voice of response from Atlassian .... we might not agree with their methods, but slinging petty remarks at the staff doesn't help anyone.
@Prokop Smetana The Atlassian team has made it abundantly clear by their silence and minimal response to specific questions, that a longing for the 'old' Trello is pointless.
If you've read through this thread, as well as the "the new Trello is coming soon to everyone!" thread you'll understand they intend to evolve Trello into 'an entirely different product' and encouraging users to convert to Jira. The idea has left the community with a bad taste in the mouth.
@Jenn - I'm wondering if I need to start working out how to migrate my team onto Jira or another platform if Trello continues to degrade. It's been a good platform, but if Atlassian don't want it used in the ways that people have used it, then it's not going to be a viable long term option if they keep on making things harder. Just the lack of simple upgrades signals that this is not a piece of software that is front of mind.
A huge frustration for most is the fact that it didn't need to happen, it made everything less efficient, and a child can see that. Atlassian continues to keep gaslighting people into believing that it's better and that they're listening to feedback in order to see how they can improve it. Clearly the feedback goes in one ear and out the other. It seems to me that the only Atlassian representative we have responding to this thread only chooses to respond to questions that he can answer with canned responses.
@jenn is correct. When I actually received a response from the support team about the changes, I was told that they will not support a classic or "old" version as well as a new version. They mentioned that not everyone uses Trello the same way as one reason for the change. That'd be fine, but stupid things like hiding card buttons under a menu rather than keeping them on the card...? A dumb floating menu on the bottom that literally everyone hates and blocks the horizontal scroll bar. It's bonkers to me that a designer can sit back and be like "yeah that works and looks a lot better". Regardless of how it's being used, it's laughably terrible.
I've said from the beginning this is someone's bruised ego not wanting to admit they were wrong. Just like Cracker Barrel. Fortunately, the board switcher goes back on the left and I've grown used to the "new" Trello, but would I dump it for the old version? In. A. Heartbeat. Oh well. This is the 2025 we live in, folks.
As Cracker barrel was mentioned, it's not impossible to bully companies to backpedal on their stupid changes. Evolving Trello to something else is one thing, but it was also mentioned that those changes are fundamentally flawed from basic UI/UX perspective. And that alone is reason enough to call out the bull**** they say.
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