You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
I love new features, don't get me wrong, but not at the cost of them cluttering up the UI with features I rarely (or never) use. The sidebar on the web keeps growing with no way to tame it. How about implementing a Gmail-style menu system where you can bury menu items you don't want to see, but can still access if need-be... this way the UI can be more tuned to how an individual uses it?
C'mon Dropbox, please remove or allow all of us to remove the right sidebar! It is totally useless to me and takes up way too much screen real estate! And while you're at it, can you please make these changes as a 'default' instead of making all of us remove it every time we log in?
I never thought Dropbox UI errors could ever drive me to OneDrive. But this is just ridiculous. They took a good product and "featured" it to death. :-(
Funny that the first version of this suggestion was in 2015! Wow. Responsive development hey?
The web interface still doesn't allow sidebars to be resized or closed/hidden. I feel like all the menu options could be on one side or in a collapsible menu. Perhaps the dev team all uses 4k monitors so there's lots of real estate to work with while me and my low res screen plod along.
OneDrive anyone?
So this suggestion was over a year ago and still the right side bar is taking up so much space.
Well, at just a little over 5 years since I originally made this suggestion, I see those extra menu items in the left bar have been moved to a sub-menu in the top right on the web... feels much more cleaner and focused now. Crazy it took so long, though ;)
THE SIDEBARS (ESPECIALLY THE RIGHTONE) TAKE SOME MUCH SPACE THAT WHEN i DOCK THE WINDOW TO ONE SIDE YOU CAN BARELY SEE THE NAMES OF THE FILES
Come on Dropbox. This is pathetic. Removing or Hiding the Sidebars is easy for the Dropbox dev team. Allowing the user to setting a switch, save in the profile object, and using that to power default hide settings in CSS. My development team does this routinely for my clients. It's about 2-3 hours for a single dev to complete. With browser profiles these days, the QA team can check it in a matter of minutes. Even with documentation, performance analysis (near-zero), DB schema updates (or none if using NoSQL), and push to production, you'll still talking a single resource equivilancy of an offshore resource for maybe a day or 2.
I can't even see the name of the files on the web version because the useless side bars take up so much space.
Agreed. Allow users to hide the two sidebars. They are just wasting space, preventing us from seeing OUR items. We don't care about all those 'special' tools. If we can hide them, we can also bring them back when and IF we ever do need them.
Please add the option for us to hide them. I spend so much time swearing at the system trying to SEE my content and then remembering there STILL is no way. Modernize, please!Please remove both sidebars or allow me the option to remove them in my Dropbox. They take up way too much screen space and I never use the features in either sidebar. I see this issue has been commented on since 2015! Please listen to your client/customers and correct the issue. Thank you.
