the current update moved the navigation to the top, but one big feature is missing.
I totaly understands the relation between projects & boards with you're intention, but:
we have a tons of projects and some teams used some boards for bugfixing over a lot of projects, so far so good, still works, but, we managed this with the "favorite" (star) feature, so in the old navigation i get the board with max 2 clicks (open navigation, click on favorites, select board), currently this thing is not working anymore ... so we need to user the browser bookmarking again ...
If you don't want to add boards to the new navigation then please add the favorites to the new navigation ...
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