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?
I'm totally with you on this. That right sidebar is irritating- and that I have to close it every single time I open a new document from my Dropbox folder is doubly irritating!
My particular use is a folder full of pdfs and I'm constantly flipping through the pdfs. For some reason the sidebar takes up almost 50% of the width of the window, and I never use anything it contains, so each time I open a pdf I have to wait for the sidebar to open, then close it, then start what I need to do
Thanks for fixing this!
Laura
This idea DOES NOT need more votes. Dropbox is practically useless with the sidebar widths that exist. It severely hinders my workflow and makes the UX / UI useless.
Why is it every time I visit the site the right sidebar has to expand? It gets in the way!
Please Dropbox, fix the sidebar widths, or give us an option to collapse them ourselves. I am so tired of tech companies constantly changing their UI's for the sake of change.
And what is up with the sidebar on the left? It is completely useless.
Hi!
The right sidebar feature is redundant. I don't need to know the name of the folder I've opened, it's already there in the middle. It takes up so much space, I can't see the file names within the folder and have been using dropbox less and less for this reason. (It's frustrating because I pay for dropbox nevertheless).
Can both the left and right sidebars have resize features added?Thanks!
Please, have the sidebar collapsed on page load.
Please, show 1080P not 720P when I upload HD videos.
Please, do not take up 20% of the screen's real estate with your branding when I'm paying $200 a yearI agree with everyone here! I just downloaded the Dropbox app on my iPad to read some documents more easily. I found I could not hide the menu/file bar while reading, so half my screen was taken up with the file explorer bar on the left and the open PDF on the right. It would be great if I could hide the bar on the left to focus solely on the PDF while reading and it would provide a lot less visual distraction for this task. I can’t believe there’s no way to hide/expand the sidebar, it’s really frustrating and making me question whether I should go with a different cloud service.
There appear to be only two workarounds since Dropbox is completely ignoring this problem:
1) Change the size of your default display text. If you set it closer to 100% you may be able to read your full filenames. (But if you need bigger text, this is no help)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-the-size-of-text-in-windows-10-1d5830c3-eee3-8eaa-836b-abcc37d99b9a
2) Give up on Dropbox and migrate to one of it's competitors:
pCloud, Google Drive, Tresorit, OneDrive, Sync.com, Mega, or Box.I just spent the past 10 minutes look for a solution to this -- and read all 4 pages of this thread since 2015! Can't believe there is still no solution to this issue. I would really like to hide that sidebar or have a preference that disables it.
I don't need it and can't read my file names because of the poor UI.
Please Dropbox team! Help!Yes, I definitely need to be able to hide the right sidebar. I'm using a small screen laptop and it takes up way too much space, reducing the view of my document list!
Even Adobe lets you hide the side toolbars :)
As @MicioGeremia said.
The right-hand pane takes up a lot of space (esp on a laptop screen) and it is useless to me. Please allow the user to hide it, or at the very least resize it. It is wasted screen real-esate and makes the user interface annoy me every time I use Dropbox. All it shows is the name of the folder (which I know, and can see elsewhere) and the users (which I already know, and don't need to see 99% of the time).
