Is anybody from Atlassian reading this thread/forum? It seems that end users complaints are really and deeply ignored :-( What shall we do to get attention and professional customer care that values customers?
> What shall we do to get attention and professional customer care that values customers?
Start looking at other products? :)
I'm only half joking. Too many disappointments in the past couple of years, and it's just getting worse. It feels like they feel they are too big to care about the constant repeating interruptions they cause the workflows of their pesky customers.
I've already started casually examining some other options.
I did not want to be so explicit with looking for the new software... Unfortunately it's not so easy to migrate to another tool... I passed it couple of times and it always was expensive process with some data lost...
I'd rather stay with Atlassian and continue using Jira and Confluence.
They have many strong points, and we also have some API integrations with them we'd have to migrate together with the data itself.
I'd also much rather spend my time on my actual work.
I just find it so frustrating that things keep breaking, and reports on regressions (or de facto regressions) seem to always hit a wall of "oh we are so sorry and totally feel your pain, please go vote for some ticket that will never ever actually get implemented".
It's not about missing a couple of features. It's about having things repeatedly break. In my company if a client reports a regression in a new release then we give it a high priority - even if it's a small issue and even if it affects only a small portion of our users. Atlassian seem to often just let these issues starve...
I understand that the old navigation is being replaced by the new one. But I don't see why that banner needs to be shown all the time, even when I'm still using the old navigation...
I dislike the fact the your starred or saved filters are not in really any order. I specifically named my filters a certain because they were in alphabetical order and easier for me to find. Now most of my more commonly used filters are not displayed on the side panel so i have to go looking for them. I cant rearrange the order and renaming doesnt seem have any impact. I dont want to see by recently used. i want to see by a specific order of ones i used most to least.
I have tried to find ways to reorder in manner that i prefer but havent found that info. If its available please share. Otherwise make this an option so I dont have add extra steps for something that should be very simple.
Not only does Atlassian have no grasp of good UX, they also apparently lack an understanding of calendars -- so I'll spell it out for them:
The original post clearly says:
"Starting from September 2025 we’re removing ‘Go back to the old issue search’."
As of this morning (July 30th, 2025 -- over a full month before September), I no longer have the option under the "Labs" to revert this awful UI. This option is now completely gone
Thanks, Atlassian. I feel both heard and clearly communicated to.
@Greymagic27 we have literally created a Chrome extension to "fix" Jira. But we've pretty much given up on it as our fixes keep breaking with every update (read: regression) Atlassian releases (which is like every other day...)
Working with new filters in Jira has become extremely inconvenient.
What used to be simple and fast is now a frustrating experience.
Main issues:
Not all starred filters are displayed - to access the full list, I now have to open a separate page, which adds unnecessary friction.
Starred filters are sorted by date added, not by name, which means I can’t organize them in a meaningful way. Important filters added a long time ago are pushed out of view.
There is no way to sort filters manually or alphabetically.
The Recent filters is unreliable. Even after using a starred filter all day long, it didn’t appear in the recent list.
The default system filters are always expanded by default, even though they are never used, making the interface more cluttered.
Glad to see Jira evolving and improving the search experience. The new search is definitely faster and more intuitive. It would be great to ensure that all critical features from the old search are fully available and stable before the complete deprecation, so teams with complex workflows can transition smoothly.
Why on earth do you call tickets "work items"? And the new search is slow, horrible and the lazy load makes it next to unusable (for example, browser-based Ctrl+F / Search doesn't "see" tickets off of the screen). Apparently Atlassian no longer eat their own dog food as they used to 15+ years ago :-(
@Martin Blazek maybe it was inspired by Microsoft TFS :)
"Work Item" is much better than "Issue" IMO. That may be the only change Atlassian has made in the past few years that I find useful... Though "ticket" would be better.
You've recently forced your new issue browsing methodology in advance despite your supposed deadline. Users are stuck in this mode already. It seems November 2025 does not start at the same time for JIRA as for the rest of the planet.
It is so, HORRIBLY slow, it is very frustrating for me and several others where I work. We wait for the pages to load. They don't. Then we attempt refreshing them, sometimes for minutes on end, to no avail. Sometimes it takes so long I just give up and work with what I remember and try again a few hours later. Sometimes it works then, sometimes it doesn't.
That is a deal breaker for us. If you can at least tell us if you're working on improving this (so we can have an experience similar to the speed of the old issue search), that would be helpful. But if you are genuinely satisfied with this change and think this is an, and I quote, "This offers a faster, more optimised Jira search", then we are going to look for alternatives.
I strongly prefer the previous view. In the example below, the New Search View does not display the full verification details. Additionally, it appears to ignore line breaks (\n) compared to the Old Search View. Is this something that can be addressed?
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August 19, 2025 edited
@Peter Farrell Looks like the option in your screenshot refers to New Navigation in Jira, not the work item search, apologies if the terms used are a bit confusing. You are still able to switch to old work item search by clicking on the meatball menu in the top right of the work item search page and selecting 'Go back to the old search'.
@Rustam Baladai New work item search has the same filter configuration as the old work item search, the changes you refer to are caused by New Navigation in Jira. You can find out more in this page.
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