Card display

[Sandy Hubbard]

I don't know if it's something I did, or if Trello has updated the card format.

We used to be able to scroll down a card from the Description through comments. Now the card is segmented, with the Description field to the left of the card and the comments/activity to the right.

This wastes time having to navigate to the right on every card. Is there any way to restore the original vertical look?

[Sandy Hubbard]

Several days later, and I'm still waiting for an answer from Atlassian. As apparently are many other people who've commented in another thread to the "best upgrade ever" announcement that they really preferred the original card format design..

[Nils Geylen]

Trello's doing an entire Beta rollout, and card views are indeed among the design changes.
I'm not in the dev team so look around in the Beta announcements here.

When you say navigate, do you mean hide/show the right side Comments/Activity pane?

Beneath the card there's now a small hover menu (similar to the new Board Switcher) with a callout icon to hide and show the Comments/Activity pane.

Agree that's a bore, because I sometimes need the comments, but the activity is of little interest to me. There's an additional button to "Hide details" but that involves yet another action and it doesn't hide everything--this was the case before already. 

Plus, these are personal user choices. When I share boards with observers and their cards have this view on, they get to see this muddled list of activity they have no reason to see and just get distracted by.

Comments and activity are entirely different things to me at that.

[Sandy Hubbard]

Thank you for your response. 

1. By navigate, I mean, "move to" to add a comment. We rely on comments nearly exclusively after the initial set of instructions. So every time we want to make a comment now, we must navigate (or move to) the comment section that is now to opoosite side of the side of the card, instead of below in the linear fashion it was in before. i.e, I could have scrolled before. Now I need to move across the card to get to a place I can make a comment. Although this may seem like a small thing to some, it is additional movements on the wrist, where we used to be able to just scroll on the mouse, slows us down, and serves no valuable purpose to have to be relocated like this.

2. We find activity of little to no use, so we live in a state of hidden details. 

3. Comments are very different than activity. We need to be able to add information to each other in the comment field very quickly and easily.

[Nils Geylen]

I see. Yeah,  scrolling or glancing down for comments is a much more intuitive action, and the fact the comments/activity panel can be "hidden" doesn't help much then.

"We rely on comments nearly exclusively after the initial set of instructions."

That's an interesting approach.

We have our similar quirks in how we use Trello, but it seems most users and hence features are increasingly aimed at project tracking: deadlines, to-do's, while the app is capable of so much more than being a glorified task planner.

I could be interpreting your comment wrong, but it fascinates me how some organisations 'hack' Trello into vastly different uses. Cheers!

[Sandy Hubbard]

We move individual pieces of a monthly magazine through its various stages in trello. To wit: different boards for each issue, columns for the stage of the action item (writer, graphics, copy-editor etc), cards for the item (article, video, social assets, etc) that move from column to column, comments in the card that are applicable to each stage. Simple, and it works well for us. We do also have checklists to outline expected subworkflows, and automation buttons set up to move from stage to stage etc.