I find this change unnecessary - its only benefit seems to be allowing users to customize their sidebar. Personally I prefer the current top menu bar.
How can we hide the left sidebar? There are cases where we need to present a Jira dashboard. We don't want to show this sidebar. Also better have a collapse all option on the sidebar.
This reminds me of what happened in 2018 when Atlassian changed the ‘top’ navigation bar to a ‘side’ navigation bar. The experience was so bad that *after* they rolled it out, they ran focus groups where 95% of users said they preferred the ‘top’ to the ‘side’. Then in 2020 the ‘top’ was brought back as an ‘improvement’ (“we have heard your feedback”) and because it was a “better navigation system”.
Fast forward to today, and the reasons for changing the ‘top’ back to the ‘side’ are the same as when the ‘side’ was changed back to the ‘top’ – “it will make it faster to navigate and easier to find work”.
*The same problems that users reported in 2018 are highlighted on this page as improvements.*
Saying that something is “new and modern” doesn’t beat something that has already proven to be “better”. What would have been better is to allow customisation on the ‘top’ rather than move some of the ‘top’ to the ‘side’ and end up with three navigation bars compared to two. Also, I can’t see where the project settings are so possibly there are now four navigation bars.
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