Give us our old home page back! New layout is AWFUL!

[Brittney_Byus1]

Continuing the discussion from Please, please tell me the home screen won't be updated like the free account:

[Vivid-Squid]

It is pretty unhelpful. Took me longer than it should have to find Bases shared with me. Cant see all bases on one screen. All I ever heard anyone ask for on the home page is better grouping, and they just made it worse.

[ScottWorld]

@Vivid-Squid Can you drag-and-drop bases around into a custom order?

I totally agree that this is a misguided decision by Airtable.

You can try to email support@airtable.com or contact @Jordan_Scott1 about this.

[Vivid-Squid]

@ScottWorld I can Star an item and rearrange the Starred Items list.

The 5 min of heart racing panic when I could not find bases shared with me did add a few years and grey hairs.

I am unsure why resources were spent on this change, I am not finding any improvements.

[ScottWorld]

Vivid-Squid:

@ScottWorld I can Star an item and rearrange the Starred Items list.

That’s good to hear — a baby step in the right direction! However, not having the ability to rearrange bases in workspaces is a huge mistake (in my opinion). The best feature of the homepage is the ability to move bases (and workspaces) into the order that you need them in.

Can you still rearrange workspaces, or are they forced to be in alphabetical order?

The 5 min of heart racing panic when I could not find bases shared with me did add a few years and grey hairs.

In a private preview screening of this, I specifically asked Airtable to keep “bases shared with me” clearly visibly, but they didn’t implement my feedback. :man_shrugging:

[Bill_French]

Vivid-Squid:

I am unsure why resources were spent on this change, I am not finding any improvements.

When will a $12bn company learn how to do this?

[Friday_and_Asso]

Thank you!!! I was hoping I wasn’t the only person who was REALLY missing the old layout, I had it all organized and now can’t find anything. I adore airtable, and am hoping that if they get enough comments about this they will go back to the way it was, this is SOOOOO not an improvement at all. I sent a message to the support team, maybe if we all do they’ll realize we prefer the way we had before… I asked them to plleeaassseeee even add the option 'old layout" or “new layout” if possible, I see that sometimes, that way we can have our old one if we liked it that way.

[Olpy_Acaflo]

Hi,

I am currently very busy alone on 2 big projects that do not leave me any brain available to analyze and solve much else but here, I add my modest thoughts to the situation that is very disturbing I feel !

Bill.French:

When will a $12bn company learn how to do this?

ScottWorld:

not having the ability to rearrange bases in workspaces is a huge mistake (in my opinion). The best feature of the homepage is the ability to move bases (and workspaces) into the order that you need them in.

Yes it really is !

I don’t really understand AIRTABLE when the UX/UI that was quite satisfying is so messed up and imposed.

The only thing I missed in the old interface was the decoupling between the Workspace and a Payment Plan.
This did not allow me to consider the Workspace as a Folder in which I could keep some of my Bases, for example: private / job 1 / job 2 / lab…, and it is also essential to pay attention to be able to continue to SYNC a table from one Database to another,
even if the Bases were hypothetically stored in different Folders, but this does not exist.

I have already been helped by the Support, very well and very quickly, when I reported a real issue.

But when I count the Requests, the ones that do not go against the good professional practices justified and explained by the best Experts, the most repeated Requests from the Community that have never been encountered for years, I too feel that this unwanted and unappreciated change is energy and time misused by Airtable.

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[Michelle_Pease]

I agree, and am relieved that others feel the same way. The new layout is hard to navigate and takes way more time to deal with than the old layout. It detracts from the whole user experience and is making me rethink using the platform. Also if this is an “improvement” I’m hoping they don’t try and “improve” anything else.

[Melissa_Frank1]

I absolutely despise the new layout. I use Airtable for personal use and for work, and share my screen half the day in meetings. I do not need my coworker seeing my other bases up at the top when I open another tab of Airtable... Worst "upgrade" ever and I just want them to give us the option to revert back to the old screen. Please. They'd probably see 100% of users with more than 10 bases doing just that.