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The left sidebar, which contains nothing but the new LLM button, can no longer be collapsed. In an interface that is essentially a series of excel-like rows and tables, every inch of my screen is valuable, especially on a laptop screen. This bar of empty space actively slows down my workflow as it increases the amount of scrolling sideways I have to do, and it also throws off my muscle memory by moving all of the tabs over, and pushes the actual useful information on the left side of the screen away from the edge of the screen where I am used to finding it.

 

Please add an option to move the LLM button to the top right, next to the base history and contact sales buttons, where there is a ton of empty space already. Or, add an option to minimize the sidebar, like we used to be able to. Or better yet, give us an option to hide the LLM button entirely if we are not interested in using it.

 

I know every CEO believes that LLMs are the next big thing that must be included in any technology, but using up the entire left side of the screen to smash it into our disinterested faces is a bad move, from the perspective of one user who uses Airtable 6 hours a day and is asked annually if Airtable is still worth our department’s (substantial) annual subscription fee.

 

 

Hey ​@will.price,

You’ll probably want to fill out this Product Idea / Feature Request form, and reach out to support@airtable.com

Airtable is not actively going through out posts here to capture feedback unfortunately.  

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation


@will.price 

I totally agree with you!

It is really strange & unfortunate that Airtable has decided to make this UI change, because it takes up so much extra screen real estate for no reason.

Unfortunately, as ​@Mike_AutomaticN mentioned above, Airtable doesn’t monitor our discussions here… it’s just your fellow Airtable users here.

Be sure to take both of these steps:

  1. Email your complaints to support@airtable.com
  2. Fill out this form with your complaints.

Hope this helps!

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant


Fully agree with your sentiments, but you can’t get rid of the left bar anymore. If you don’t want Omni hassling you though, if you turn off AI in your workspace the button will go away (leaving you with an even more useless bar). 


Fully agree with your sentiments, but you can’t get rid of the left bar anymore. If you don’t want Omni hassling you though, if you turn off AI in your workspace the button will go away (leaving you with an even more useless bar). 

When you first google how to hide the sidebar, the first thing that comes up is a thread on this website from two years ago of people complaining about not being able to minimize the views sidebar:

 

 

Which is now an option in the interface. So it is certainly possible that they will change the UI to make it better, if enough people complain about it. 


Agree it takes up a lot of unnecessary horizontal space, which was already an issue. Please allow users to at least customize where that goes or shrink it to be a tiny bar that can be expanded to its current size.


I emailed support and submitted a product suggestion as well. Setting this new sidebar to be collapsible is necessary.