Go Back to the Old Layout Please | Voters

Go Back to the Old Layout Please

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Damia December

I love the new features, but not the new layout. The old design was more intuitive and easier on the eyes as well. Can you go back to the old layout and design, but keep the new features?

March 19, 2025

Tibet Sprague

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Tibet Sprague

Hi Damia! We'd love to know which parts of the old design and layout you liked better. While we are unlikely to shift the layout as we think the new one makes it much faster and easier to navigate around, we are continuing to tweak the new colors. We have also laid the foundation for different themes (and already added support for both dark mode and light mode), so in the future you could choose the color scheme you prefer.

Samantha Prigge

Tibet Sprague Hi! I'd like to support what Damia has said...and hopefully I can provide some details/examples. I find the sidebar layout, for example, uncomfortable to navigate. I don't like the fact that 'Activity', 'Messages' and 'The Commons' are listed first and my groups are listed way down. Also, my groups seem to be listed in alphabetical order which means that the group I use/navigate within the most, is actually right at the bottom!! Perhaps I've missed a way to customize this but at present this layout is not as intuitive and fluid as before.

Tibet Sprague

Samantha Prigge: Yes unfortunately you cannot yet sort or organize the list of items/groups in the main nav, something we know is very needed and will come soon! We didn't however have that previously either, so nothing has changed there. There also used to actually be more things above your groups list actually so that should have improved for the better. The main difference being that the global nav menu is always visible now whereas before you had to open it.

Samantha Prigge

Tibet Sprague Thanks for the feedback, Tibet. Perfectly understandable and all good. I'm starting to feel a little more comfortable with the new layout and look forward to refinement of the final details. I appreciate you taking my feedback into account.