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by MisterKent 2702 days ago
The old UI was better, and forcing people to this weird pretty UI doesn't make sense.

Several products aimed at tech people seem to make this mistake. We are power users, we don't want stuff hidden away. Stop having UX that's designed as if we were trying to browse twitter.
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Meph504 2702 days ago
This is spot on, I've been using tfso or devops, brand of the month. I hate the New UI, its really clear that the people are focus on making something that doesn't need to be pretty, pretty at the expense of functionality.

For example, when you go to do a release and you of course want to do release notes, previously you could copy and paste the related issues output into any document.

Now its been CSSified to be big, bubbly, and utterly useless to do anything but look at, and there is no print or export feature.

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eckza 2702 days ago
Looking right at you, JIRA.
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rb666 2702 days ago
If you wouldn't hide certain things within JIRA you would go completely bonkers. JIRA allows you to fully customize the interface regardless.
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Shihan 2701 days ago
I also liked the old UI far better. I have trouble finding things and navigating to where I want to go in the new UI. In the old UI it was easier to get an overview and to see where I have to click.
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jsingleton 2701 days ago
The new UI was useful when it was opt-in and we were migrating from on-prem TFS to what was then called VSTS. It made it easy to tell which system you were using.

I'm more used to the old UI but some features are not easily discoverable. I wrote some posts on how to build branches and pull requests as it's not obvious: https://unop.uk/build-and-release-all-pull-request-merge-res...

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