Double Click on Field Name - Restore Customize Field Functionality!
Hello Airtable, Please, please please reverse this change!
Double-clicking on the field name now only modifies the name of the field. It is a pain to have to right-click to access this menu. I don’t want to be overdramatic and claim this will totally ruin Airtable, but it’s much less efficient than the old method.
I also noticed that when creating a new field, the field type is now the first dialog. Then we are prompted to put in a name. This is fine and I can get used to the new workflow. I understand that this reduces the number of times I use “Tab” to move between dialog boxes.
I love Airtable and hope it continues to make progress! Just not the progress I don’t like
I am looking forward to your list. I think it’s really important and I am grateful that you are doing this.
Although, I think that sending this list to Airtable support is a good idea, too. According to @kuovonne, it seems that this forum is more geared to members getting and receiving help.
One would think that Airtable would look at the Request category, but perhaps not or if so, it might not be such a priority for them. Which is too bad, since it’s the users that pay their bills, in the end.
I, too am very passionate about Airtable, and this last change regarding “Customize fields“ option, makes no sense, especially removing the ability to customize fields on a mobile device, which I use with Airtable, 99% of the time. I am sure I am not the only one who uses a mobile device. There are 100,000’a people using these devices.
I think that I am going to send them an email about this.
You got me on a roll here!
Mary
2020 has been a month-to-month litany of absolutely-no-warning product updates. I said before that none of us knows what’s going on until after a decision has been made, which if I were to hazard a guess, is the real source of frustration about this and other changes. People begged for bold text for ages, and no one knew they were even considering that feature until they released a beta for rich long text fields.
For me its less a problem that “Airtable hasn’t added x,y, z yet”, its “Airtable won’t give any indication if they would even consider x or y or z”. This is why I like ClickUp’s use of canny.io to give users simple feedback on “we’re considering it/ we’re working on it/we’ve released it” in addition to a community support forums for “how do i …?” questions instead of product suggestions/bugs (link below).
Conversely, had people gotten a little popup that said “We’re testing out a new workflow for editing field name/type, click here to opt-in” (or “Please use this new workflow for a week and give us your feedback”) then I do believe people would be less upset about it in the first place.
I am in the unique position that I specifically told Airtable to sign me up for literally every beta and not to bother with asking, but most people don’t want that.
Just noticed something about the new process for creating a new field by setting its config options first, then the name:
It ensures the field isn’t created until its basically done. I very much like this change. Before, the field was made immediately with the name “Field #” and is updated when you click done, meaning if you have an automated process that looks for updated base schema or record options, it may fire twice when creating a field. The new process might be more efficient.
I still stand by my assertion that field name and config options make sense to be contained in the same dialog.
2020 has been a month-to-month litany of absolutely-no-warning product updates. I said before that none of us knows what’s going on until after a decision has been made, which if I were to hazard a guess, is the real source of frustration about this and other changes. People begged for bold text for ages, and no one knew they were even considering that feature until they released a beta for rich long text fields.
For me its less a problem that “Airtable hasn’t added x,y, z yet”, its “Airtable won’t give any indication if they would even consider x or y or z”. This is why I like ClickUp’s use of canny.io to give users simple feedback on “we’re considering it/ we’re working on it/we’ve released it” in addition to a community support forums for “how do i …?” questions instead of product suggestions/bugs (link below).
Conversely, had people gotten a little popup that said “We’re testing out a new workflow for editing field name/type, click here to opt-in” (or “Please use this new workflow for a week and give us your feedback”) then I do believe people would be less upset about it in the first place.
I am in the unique position that I specifically told Airtable to sign me up for literally every beta and not to bother with asking, but most people don’t want that.
AMEN! I wouldn’t mind opting in to a lot of things, as long as I could opt out as needed. Gmail’s settings panel has an option to enable “experimental” features, which adds a whole new section where you can activate/deactivate lots of beta features at will.
Something like that in Airtable would be very welcome!
I am looking forward to your list. I think it’s really important and I am grateful that you are doing this.
Although, I think that sending this list to Airtable support is a good idea, too. According to @kuovonne, it seems that this forum is more geared to members getting and receiving help.
One would think that Airtable would look at the Request category, but perhaps not or if so, it might not be such a priority for them. Which is too bad, since it’s the users that pay their bills, in the end.
I, too am very passionate about Airtable, and this last change regarding “Customize fields“ option, makes no sense, especially removing the ability to customize fields on a mobile device, which I use with Airtable, 99% of the time. I am sure I am not the only one who uses a mobile device. There are 100,000’a people using these devices.
I think that I am going to send them an email about this.
We would like to emphasize that this is a community forum, and it is primarily designed for users to have conversations with each other—not for users to contact the staff. While Airtable employees post on the forums relatively frequently (these users have “Airtable” after their username and a special badge that says “Airtable Employee” on their user profiles), they will not respond to every post, and you should not expect that your post will necessarily receive a response from an Airtable employee.
If you would like to get in contact with Airtable’s staff, or if you are having an urgent issue with an Airtable base, we suggest that you use the in-app support or that you email us at support@airtable.com.
We would like to emphasize that this is a community forum, and it is primarily designed for users to have conversations with each other—not for users to contact the staff. While Airtable employees post on the forums relatively frequently (these users have “Airtable” after their username and a special badge that says “Airtable Employee” on their user profiles), they will not respond to every post, and you should not expect that your post will necessarily receive a response from an Airtable employee.
If you would like to get in contact with Airtable’s staff, or if you are having an urgent issue with an Airtable base, we suggest that you use the in-app support or that you email us at support@airtable.com.
Your input in the community forum is greatly appreciated.
I find your posts very interesting!
Mary
Back on topic :smiling_face_with_halo:
I would love for Airtable to respond to this. It feels like an April fools joke.
2020 has been a month-to-month litany of absolutely-no-warning product updates. I said before that none of us knows what’s going on until after a decision has been made, which if I were to hazard a guess, is the real source of frustration about this and other changes. People begged for bold text for ages, and no one knew they were even considering that feature until they released a beta for rich long text fields.
For me its less a problem that “Airtable hasn’t added x,y, z yet”, its “Airtable won’t give any indication if they would even consider x or y or z”. This is why I like ClickUp’s use of canny.io to give users simple feedback on “we’re considering it/ we’re working on it/we’ve released it” in addition to a community support forums for “how do i …?” questions instead of product suggestions/bugs (link below).
Conversely, had people gotten a little popup that said “We’re testing out a new workflow for editing field name/type, click here to opt-in” (or “Please use this new workflow for a week and give us your feedback”) then I do believe people would be less upset about it in the first place.
I am in the unique position that I specifically told Airtable to sign me up for literally every beta and not to bother with asking, but most people don’t want that.
Wow, so I just got this new “customize field functionality” today, and as predicted, it is absolutely horrible:
First of all, now we can’t edit fields on mobile web browsers anymore, so now we’re required to use a desktop computer to make any changes to our fields. I would love for Airtable to please explain to me how this has made our lives easier. (Or maybe explain why mobile browsers have been shunned altogether in the product.)
Second of all, it makes absolutely no sense for the customization/creation of fields to be separated from the renaming of the fields. It was completely easy & straightforward before, and now they’ve made this a 2-step process that is unintuitive & ridiculous, especially for new users. I would love for Airtable to please explain to me how this made our lives easier.
This is such a great point, and this has been my biggest frustration as well — ZERO COMMUNICATION with their users. We have no idea what is coming, and then they suddenly change everything on us overnight.
I know that many of you don’t have a 30-year history with a software product like FileMaker that I do, but I can guarantee you that other database companies don’t treat their users like this. Users are not normally kept in the dark and then slapped in the face. Airtable just rolls out whatever they want without even considering the impact on us.
Yes, I get it. They’re rapidly evolving the product. And I fully expect a cloud platform to change & evolve on a regular basis — but could they give us some sort of a roadmap or some sort of a dialogue or some sort of an idea of what they’re working on?
This has been ESPECIALLY frustrating for me, since I have spent the last 4 months creating a major, 26-video training course on Airtable which is going to be released by a major company in less than 4 weeks. You guys have no idea how many “little things” are changed on a daily basis by the Airtable Team with no advance warning to us — renaming & relocation of dropdown menu option names throughout the system, renaming & relocation of buttons/menus throughout the system, tons of little functionality changes throughout the system, etc. Every time I completed one video, it was outdated the next day & had to be re-recorded. And now, because I had no advance warning of any of these new field changes, I just heard from the company that all 26 of my videos are now considered “out of date”. My course isn’t even released yet, and it’s already out of date.
I knew that my training videos would eventually become out of date, but Airtable decided that it was a good idea to change BASIC FUNCTIONALITY of creating fields — something that was actually working PERFECTLY FINE for 5 years? Or constantly moving menus around the system?
While I was recording my videos, they changed the location of “renaming views” 4 times. That’s right — they’ve changed the location of “renaming views” 4 times in 4 months. I expect a cloud platform to change & evolve over time — but why are they so erratic? Do they have any plan at all? Could they please give us some sort of a roadmap or keep us in the loop or have some sort of discussions with us? (And this “renaming views” thing is just one example. Every part of the product changed while I was working on it. There wasn’t a single part of the product that didn’t radically change while I was recording my videos.)
They feel like they have no obligation to keep us in the loop, yet we are the evangelists of their product. They have no idea that they are destroying goodwill, at least with me they are.
And, as always, the thing that frustrates me the most is that they make arbitrary changes like this which HURT our productivity & workflow, while actively ignoring REAL ISSUES in the product — things like cutting off text everywhere throughout the system (including just trying to see a date/time field in an expanded linked record), or not being able to import CSV files into RTF fields, or not being able to display any other field except the primary field on the calendar, or no non-US currency options, or any of the hundreds of other things that are frustrating real people in the real world.
It’s called having a DIALOGUE with your users. I guarantee you that I’ve come from 30 years of working with a database company (FileMaker) where DIALOGUE is the most important thing to them. And I can tell you that it is ABSENT with Airtable.
When are the users allowed to have a voice? Or, at the very least, be kept in the loop? Maybe let us know that you’re listening to us?
Yeah, I get it. They have ZERO OBLIGATION TO US. But it certainly doesn’t generate any goodwill. Do they want to generate goodwill with their users or not?
It’s getting to the point where I’m so incredibly frustrated with Airtable, that I might just go back to full-time FileMaker development again. FileMaker development is much more lucrative, and as a developer, I actually feel valued.
For me its less a problem that “Airtable hasn’t added x,y, z yet”, its “Airtable won’t give any indication if they would even consider x or y or z”. This is why I like ClickUp’s use of canny.io to give users simple feedback on “we’re considering it/ we’re working on it/we’ve released it” in addition to a community support forums for “how do i …?” questions instead of product suggestions/bugs (link below).
Yes, I see lots of companies using canny.io these days, and it seems really great. What is this ClickUp product? It looks very promising. Could it be used as a replacement for Airtable?
Wow, so I just got this new “customize field functionality” today, and as predicted, it is absolutely horrible:
First of all, now we can’t edit fields on mobile web browsers anymore, so now we’re required to use a desktop computer to make any changes to our fields. I would love for Airtable to please explain to me how this has made our lives easier. (Or maybe explain why mobile browsers have been shunned altogether in the product.)
Second of all, it makes absolutely no sense for the customization/creation of fields to be separated from the renaming of the fields. It was completely easy & straightforward before, and now they’ve made this a 2-step process that is unintuitive & ridiculous, especially for new users. I would love for Airtable to please explain to me how this made our lives easier.
This is such a great point, and this has been my biggest frustration as well — ZERO COMMUNICATION with their users. We have no idea what is coming, and then they suddenly change everything on us overnight.
I know that many of you don’t have a 30-year history with a software product like FileMaker that I do, but I can guarantee you that other database companies don’t treat their users like this. Users are not normally kept in the dark and then slapped in the face. Airtable just rolls out whatever they want without even considering the impact on us.
Yes, I get it. They’re rapidly evolving the product. And I fully expect a cloud platform to change & evolve on a regular basis — but could they give us some sort of a roadmap or some sort of a dialogue or some sort of an idea of what they’re working on?
This has been ESPECIALLY frustrating for me, since I have spent the last 4 months creating a major, 26-video training course on Airtable which is going to be released by a major company in less than 4 weeks. You guys have no idea how many “little things” are changed on a daily basis by the Airtable Team with no advance warning to us — renaming & relocation of dropdown menu option names throughout the system, renaming & relocation of buttons/menus throughout the system, tons of little functionality changes throughout the system, etc. Every time I completed one video, it was outdated the next day & had to be re-recorded. And now, because I had no advance warning of any of these new field changes, I just heard from the company that all 26 of my videos are now considered “out of date”. My course isn’t even released yet, and it’s already out of date.
I knew that my training videos would eventually become out of date, but Airtable decided that it was a good idea to change BASIC FUNCTIONALITY of creating fields — something that was actually working PERFECTLY FINE for 5 years? Or constantly moving menus around the system?
While I was recording my videos, they changed the location of “renaming views” 4 times. That’s right — they’ve changed the location of “renaming views” 4 times in 4 months. I expect a cloud platform to change & evolve over time — but why are they so erratic? Do they have any plan at all? Could they please give us some sort of a roadmap or keep us in the loop or have some sort of discussions with us? (And this “renaming views” thing is just one example. Every part of the product changed while I was working on it. There wasn’t a single part of the product that didn’t radically change while I was recording my videos.)
They feel like they have no obligation to keep us in the loop, yet we are the evangelists of their product. They have no idea that they are destroying goodwill, at least with me they are.
And, as always, the thing that frustrates me the most is that they make arbitrary changes like this which HURT our productivity & workflow, while actively ignoring REAL ISSUES in the product — things like cutting off text everywhere throughout the system (including just trying to see a date/time field in an expanded linked record), or not being able to import CSV files into RTF fields, or not being able to display any other field except the primary field on the calendar, or no non-US currency options, or any of the hundreds of other things that are frustrating real people in the real world.
It’s called having a DIALOGUE with your users. I guarantee you that I’ve come from 30 years of working with a database company (FileMaker) where DIALOGUE is the most important thing to them. And I can tell you that it is ABSENT with Airtable.
When are the users allowed to have a voice? Or, at the very least, be kept in the loop? Maybe let us know that you’re listening to us?
Yeah, I get it. They have ZERO OBLIGATION TO US. But it certainly doesn’t generate any goodwill. Do they want to generate goodwill with their users or not?
It’s getting to the point where I’m so incredibly frustrated with Airtable, that I might just go back to full-time FileMaker development again. FileMaker development is much more lucrative, and as a developer, I actually feel valued.
For me its less a problem that “Airtable hasn’t added x,y, z yet”, its “Airtable won’t give any indication if they would even consider x or y or z”. This is why I like ClickUp’s use of canny.io to give users simple feedback on “we’re considering it/ we’re working on it/we’ve released it” in addition to a community support forums for “how do i …?” questions instead of product suggestions/bugs (link below).
Yes, I see lots of companies using canny.io these days, and it seems really great. What is this ClickUp product? It looks very promising. Could it be used as a replacement for Airtable?
“Zero communication” is not true. If it were true, we wouldn’t have had the numerous notices that certain features were available for public beta testing. I’ve been part of several such betas just this year, and it’s all because Airtable put the word out—sometimes publicly, sometimes privately—that new things were in the works. Bottom line: Airtable does communicate with its users about what’s coming, but clearly not as frequently as many of us would prefer.
“Zero communication” is not true. If it were true, we wouldn’t have had the numerous notices that certain features were available for public beta testing. I’ve been part of several such betas just this year, and it’s all because Airtable put the word out—sometimes publicly, sometimes privately—that new things were in the works. Bottom line: Airtable does communicate with its users about what’s coming, but clearly not as frequently as many of us would prefer.
You are, of course, totally correct here. It’s not ZERO communication. It just feels like it.
It’s not even the “frequency” of communication that’s the problem. I feel like it’s the “inconsistent communication” which is the problem. It’s almost like they feel that some changes don’t need to be shared with us at all, even though those changes have a major impact on how we do things. (All the while ignoring small things that we’ve been begging to be changed.)
Other software companies have “partner programs” to keep their consultants/developers/evangelists/power-users in the loop, but as far as I know, Airtable has no such program.
I think that the people in this thread would be the PERFECT group of people to be invited into such a program, especially since many of us are consulting multiple companies on their Airtable deployments in their organizations.
The thing I still can’t wrap my head around is this:
Why do they spend so much time changing things that were working fine, while not changing things that actually need attention?
You are, of course, totally correct here. It’s not ZERO communication. It just feels like it.
It’s not even the “frequency” of communication that’s the problem. I feel like it’s the “inconsistent communication” which is the problem. It’s almost like they feel that some changes don’t need to be shared with us at all, even though those changes have a major impact on how we do things. (All the while ignoring small things that we’ve been begging to be changed.)
Other software companies have “partner programs” to keep their consultants/developers/evangelists/power-users in the loop, but as far as I know, Airtable has no such program.
I think that the people in this thread would be the PERFECT group of people to be invited into such a program, especially since many of us are consulting multiple companies on their Airtable deployments in their organizations.
The thing I still can’t wrap my head around is this:
Why do they spend so much time changing things that were working fine, while not changing things that actually need attention?
I’m not a software developer but I can’t imagine there is a single development team at Airtable. If I were to hazard a guess, the folks tweaking main app stuff (like adding/editing fields) are not the same folks building the custom apps platform and are not the same folks working on security.
Just saying, we don’t seem to complain when they add stuff we didn’t ask for if we end up liking it lol. “I didn;t ask for this!” Is not as compelling as “this doesn’t work as well as it should”.
You are, of course, totally correct here. It’s not ZERO communication. It just feels like it.
It’s not even the “frequency” of communication that’s the problem. I feel like it’s the “inconsistent communication” which is the problem. It’s almost like they feel that some changes don’t need to be shared with us at all, even though those changes have a major impact on how we do things. (All the while ignoring small things that we’ve been begging to be changed.)
Other software companies have “partner programs” to keep their consultants/developers/evangelists/power-users in the loop, but as far as I know, Airtable has no such program.
I think that the people in this thread would be the PERFECT group of people to be invited into such a program, especially since many of us are consulting multiple companies on their Airtable deployments in their organizations.
The thing I still can’t wrap my head around is this:
Why do they spend so much time changing things that were working fine, while not changing things that actually need attention?
Correct; been asking for such a program since mid-2019.
Correct; been asking for such a program since mid-2019.
Correction: They likely have no formal developer-partner program, OR they have one and none of us are in it. I know certain developers have fore-knowledge of certain features sometimes (I’m being intentionally vague), and I know I got multiple betas ahead of most, but I know I did not get them first.
I’m not a software developer but I can’t imagine there is a single development team at Airtable. If I were to hazard a guess, the folks tweaking main app stuff (like adding/editing fields) are not the same folks building the custom apps platform and are not the same folks working on security.
Just saying, we don’t seem to complain when they add stuff we didn’t ask for if we end up liking it lol. “I didn;t ask for this!” Is not as compelling as “this doesn’t work as well as it should”.
Lol, that’s true! Airtable Syncing was one of those pleasant surprises! Same with automations!
Correction: They likely have no formal developer-partner program, OR they have one and none of us are in it. I know certain developers have fore-knowledge of certain features sometimes (I’m being intentionally vague), and I know I got multiple betas ahead of most, but I know I did not get them first.
Umm, if there is a formal developer partner program there would surely be evidence of it somewhere, otherwise, it would be an informal program. By definition, any programs that may exist have certainly not been formerly revealed, ergo, they are secret and unable to be joined by request or application submitted to join.
Unless someone has a link to a dev partner program, I’m correcting your correction.
Umm, if there is a formal developer partner program there would surely be evidence of it somewhere, otherwise, it would be an informal program. By definition, any programs that may exist have certainly not been formerly revealed, ergo, they are secret and unable to be joined by request or application submitted to join.
Unless someone has a link to a dev partner program, I’m correcting your correction.
@Bill.French Objection sustained.
So now about my theory of an Airtable Illuminati…
@Bill.French Objection sustained.
So now about my theory of an Airtable Illuminati…
LOL, I think that @Kamille_Parks knows more than she is letting on…
LOL, I think that @Kamille_Parks knows more than she is letting on…
Man they don’t tell me anything, which is the thing I most often complain about.
Lol!! Same with me!!
Well, as far as I’m concerned, we ARE the Airtable illuminati!! :winking_face:
p.s. I know that I mentioned this above, but I’m so incredibly frustrated that I can’t customize fields on my iPad anymore. When Airtable makes random changes that negatively affect users, it becomes a real problem. But what makes it even more egregious is that these features were working 100% perfectly fine in the past! Focus on things that aren’t working properly.
Man they don’t tell me anything, which is the thing I most often complain about.
And there it is - informal, need-to-know, intermittent, woeful discontinuities when communicating roadmap, beta, already reported bugs, etc. This is @ScottWorld’s fundamental assertion which would be easily remedied the way vastly most SaaS platforms do so.
And there it is - informal, need-to-know, intermittent, woeful discontinuities when communicating roadmap, beta, already reported bugs, etc. This is @ScottWorld’s fundamental assertion which would be easily remedied the way vastly most SaaS platforms do so.
My third reply in this thread called for a roadmap by-way-of Canny, and pointed out no one would have been (as) angry had they gotten a heads-up. The main consensus I see in this thread is “Airtable should publicize some type of product roadmap”.
Just now seeing the rest of your question, @ScottWorld. Clickup is a project management webapp with a pretty generous free version. It works better than Airtable for project management since that’s what its designed to do, but that is the only thing its designed to do.
My third reply in this thread called for a roadmap by-way-of Canny, and pointed out no one would have been (as) angry had they gotten a heads-up. The main consensus I see in this thread is “Airtable should publicize some type of product roadmap”.
Just now seeing the rest of your question, @ScottWorld. Clickup is a project management webapp with a pretty generous free version. It works better than Airtable for project management since that’s what its designed to do, but that is the only thing its designed to do.
OMG.
This new customize field functionality is EVEN MORE INSANE than any of us have mentioned before. Here’s the 3rd thing which I didn’t even realize above:
Now when you create a new field, are you ready for this? Sit down for this one. The ABSOLUTE GENIUSES at Airtable have decided that we don’t need to see any of the options for the fields that we create. Whenever you create a new field, it doesn’t show you any of the options for that field. It literally just creates the field. So if you want to make ANY changes to the field options at all (even as simple as adding the “time” to a date field, or changing the options for a “last modified time” field, or ANY OPTIONS AT ALL ), you have to create the field once, then you have to GO BACK INTO THE CUSTOMIZE FIELD OPTION AGAIN to find the options and change the options. Oh, and then, you have to take a 3rd action to RENAME THE FIELD. So now, creating a field & choosing its options now takes 3 DISTINCT STEPS that are extremely confusing for the user (especially if the user doesn’t even know that there are options available): 1) create the field, 2) rename the field, 3) go back into the field customization and choose its options. What ever happened to keeping things easy & understandable & simple & straightforward for the user? The craziest thing of all is that the user DOESN’T EVEN KNOW THAT FIELD OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE ANYMORE. And for those that do, it takes MULTIPLE STEPS TO GET TO THOSE FIELD OPTIONS.
This is definitive proof to me that there is no adult supervision at Airtable. This is what happens when you put a bunch of millennials in a room and give them hundreds of millions of dollars in VC funding, and don’t give them a project manager, and give all the engineers free reign to do whatever they want with the product. They run their product like a fraternity party.
THIS. IS. INFURIATING.
I’m currently considering completely walking away from Airtable at this point. I’m this close to pulling it down off of my website as a service that I provide, and I’m this close to no longer offering Airtable consulting or development anymore.
It’s not even that they could so easily make such a destructive decision like this. It’s that it happens so often, and that it shows how little foresight or adult supervision there is at the company.
OMG.
This new customize field functionality is EVEN MORE INSANE than any of us have mentioned before. Here’s the 3rd thing which I didn’t even realize above:
Now when you create a new field, are you ready for this? Sit down for this one. The ABSOLUTE GENIUSES at Airtable have decided that we don’t need to see any of the options for the fields that we create. Whenever you create a new field, it doesn’t show you any of the options for that field. It literally just creates the field. So if you want to make ANY changes to the field options at all (even as simple as adding the “time” to a date field, or changing the options for a “last modified time” field, or ANY OPTIONS AT ALL ), you have to create the field once, then you have to GO BACK INTO THE CUSTOMIZE FIELD OPTION AGAIN to find the options and change the options. Oh, and then, you have to take a 3rd action to RENAME THE FIELD. So now, creating a field & choosing its options now takes 3 DISTINCT STEPS that are extremely confusing for the user (especially if the user doesn’t even know that there are options available): 1) create the field, 2) rename the field, 3) go back into the field customization and choose its options. What ever happened to keeping things easy & understandable & simple & straightforward for the user? The craziest thing of all is that the user DOESN’T EVEN KNOW THAT FIELD OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE ANYMORE. And for those that do, it takes MULTIPLE STEPS TO GET TO THOSE FIELD OPTIONS.
This is definitive proof to me that there is no adult supervision at Airtable. This is what happens when you put a bunch of millennials in a room and give them hundreds of millions of dollars in VC funding, and don’t give them a project manager, and give all the engineers free reign to do whatever they want with the product. They run their product like a fraternity party.
THIS. IS. INFURIATING.
I’m currently considering completely walking away from Airtable at this point. I’m this close to pulling it down off of my website as a service that I provide, and I’m this close to no longer offering Airtable consulting or development anymore.
You didn’t realize it because that changed sometime between earlier today and roughly now. I’m not going to hop onboard your absurd Millennials-based conclusion train, but yes this is a bad change as well and in my view the worst change of the “series”.
As I said before, I liked the changed process of setting up settings before the field was officially created. This is worse.
You didn’t realize it because that changed sometime between earlier today and roughly now. I’m not going to hop onboard your absurd Millennials-based conclusion train, but yes this is a bad change as well and in my view the worst change of the “series”.
As I said before, I liked the changed process of setting up settings before the field was officially created. This is worse.
Oh, wow! So they’ve actively made this decision even worse. :man_facepalming:
Thanks for pointing that out — that explains how I missed it earlier.
