Quick Add Buttons now nested under a new button called "Add Content"

[David Walsh]

Since 23/07/2024, when viewing any issues, the Quick Add buttons such as "Attach" and "Link Issue" are gone and replace with a + button called "Add Content" which has the options in a nested menu.

We need to reverse this functionality. 

Was this a change on the Jira Cloud end or is there somewhere in the Project settings I can look at to investigate. I have been through all the fields,screens, workfloes and have not found anything related to the Quick-Add buttons.

Thanks

[David Walsh · Accepted solution]

Update: Atlassian have admitted responsibility as an experiment. I have asked them to exclude my site.

[Samvel Simonyan]

Was it excluded ? 

[Justin]

From what I can tell, Jira has doubled down and forced the update to everyone despite the backlash.

Honestly, if Jira just reverted their codebase to where it was 5 or 6 years ago and re-released that, the entire product would be a whole lot better. I can't believe how bad their decisions have been lately. And they've shut off the ability to directly create feedback as well... I wonder why. Too scared to hear from the customers because they know it's bad.

[Corey Hampton]

This is a horrible user experience. Now instead of clicking 1 button, we have to click 2 times and there's a bunch of white space. 

Atlassian should not be making mass changes that we can't reverse. I don't want the new Add Content button. How do I switch it back?

[sagita suwandi]

We would like to request for a way to reverse the functionality as well. 

[Ken Easson]

What I dislike most is that the button doesn't say "More..." or even "Add ..." but it's FLASHING PURPLE?!?!?! It's a Button, not a Menu - we have the Hamburger icon for exactly this purpose. 

I don't want to ADD something to my page, so why do I have to endure this Night club experience. There was no Accessibility or hover telling me that it's safe to click without moving or adding something i don't want. It's the most annoying type of uninformative Saturday Night Live skit waiting to happen ever.

[Corey Hampton]

Absolutely agree. Why did the roll out the change to everyone when they had so many customers complain about the experience. We have a HUGE white space with nothing there now. What a waste of space and bad user experience by adding additional clicks.

[Samvel Simonyan]

Horrible solution , no space is saved , just adding one click + focusing on clicking write button from list 

[Corey Hampton]

Agreed!

[Yannis Caff]

Is there a way to revert this change?

[David Walsh]

Reach out to Atlassian and ask them to revert it.

[Corey Hampton]

They can't revert it anymore, they pushed it out to everyone without a control mechanism. 

[Hans Polder]

@David Walsh ,

This sounds like a change from Atlassian side, however I'm not seeing it myself in my test environment. Can you share a screenshot?

[David Walsh]

@Hans Polder ,

Yes, you have what we had yesterday.  Here are some screenshots.

[David Walsh]

I should add...My test environment (using Jira cloud, last updated a year ago), has not changed.

[Hans Polder]

@David Walsh , I just replied to another post from someone having the same issue. Hopefully it's a bug, I would recommend you raising a support ticket to Atlassian to get their attention on this.

See: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Issue-Action-Buttons-hiding-in-Plus-Button/qaq-p/2764059

[David Walsh]

Thanks