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?
Hi Megan,
Great to hear it is passed on for review.
In my opinion only 7 years overdue ...
Hope that the review will actually lead to change.
- Megan
Dropbox Staff
Status changed:Gathering SupporttoInvestigating Who thought of that right side bar constantly expanding (so annoying) when you click on a file in a folder?! Who thought that actually was helpful should be FIRED. That thing is so annoying. I'm paying over 199/year so you can force that right side bar out LITERALLY every time I choose a file. What kind of sadistic product development crack was the person smoking? Make it STOP. If I wanted the right bar to expand I can do it myself. I do not need Dropbox to expand it!
Holy bleep! Elsewhere we are assured that Dropbox staff reads all our comments, yet still, after all these years, there isn't a setting to minimize the right sidebar by default? What are we all missing? Has there been a huge outpouring of support for the sidebar, people insisting that it remain as is, open by default? Would it take more than a couple of hours to fix the damned thing?
Dropbox please hire a few UI experts. The right side bar takes up a lot of real estate, is mostly blank, and nobody asked for it. Collapsing of sidebars is standard UI design, even Adobe Acrobat has it (and Adobe isn't exactly at the forefront of UI design).
The general pattern is this: Dropbox adds features that nobody asked for instead of adding those that thousands of users have been asking for for years, such as better file search functionality.
Dropbox.... please.... you don't understand how absolutely $%&@ing horrible it is using your entire site. Give me a way to disable the sidebar popping up. I don't need to see a giant blank space with no comments, I need to see the document I'm trying to open. No one on my team collaborates this way. It takes up a full third of the screen!! And, when I close the sidebar, please don't make the document full-screen! My eyes work just fine - please just zoom to 100%.
Please.... I'm begging you.
I can't believe there's not a way to roll back a view to what it was previously. I HATE the new view!!! WHY would I want 1/3 of my screen blank on the Right side? Please dropbox! Use your heads! Let your customers have a voice! Or we'll go somewhere that dose.
Suzanne Alton
I agree that the right hand side bar is too large and takes up too much space. There must be a way to turn this off or reduce the width.
As a graphic designer, sending clients a Dropbox link is hoping that they will get to see the image as big and detailed as possible. The sidebar KILLS that experience. Instead of first thought being "oh this looks great' it's "how do I move this sidebar thing"
It basically feels like a pop-up. There's just no one (at least in my world) using the comment feature enough to justify it.Every effort that can be made for easy reading of pdf is welcome. I don't pay money to Dropbox to get cloud storage. There are so many free options. For collaboration, I use Teams.
If there is a good percentage of Dropbox paying clients who are pdf readers, then Dropbox should take an active effort to enhance the services to this group.
It is widely reported in the internet by independent analysts that the rate of growth of the paying clients is not healthy for Dropbox. No surprise.
