You can't view projects in "list view" on home page - only a select few in "card view".Ĭan't customize homepage layout so we are left with giant Scheduler and Assignment widgets that we don't use and only a small sample of our in-progress projects in card view.Īll of these changes have basically rendered the homepage useless for us and we are trying to work out the "view all projects" directory page.Ĭreating a project from a template now takes 4 clicks instead of one as they merged it all into one button. This directory now mixes the projects in with the teams and HQ. Now we have to click into the directory to see them all.
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We are usually working on 50-100 short term projects. You can't view all projects from home page. This is cluttered visually and loses the great hierarchy that the last layout had. HQ/Teams/Projects are all now mixed together.
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Here's a quick recap of the items of the top of my head that have been made worse for us by these changes: To be clear, we have liked and adapted to every change that has been made over the last 8 years without whinging - and have really appreciated them up to the last iteration - but these are friction inducing for many of our workflows (without really seeing a way to adapt other than to just take all the extra steps that are now needed) that I thought I'd write it up to see if anyone else felt this way.
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I'm thinking we're probably in the minority for not liking these changes to the homepage from Basecamp 3 to Basecamp 4 otherwise why were they made but holy cow, we've been using now for almost 2 weeks and basically all the changes made make our workflows way more inefficient to the point where we now we just skip the homepage and try to work out of the project directory "view all projects" page.Īfter working for 8+ years on thousands of projects in Basecamp everyday, it's a gut punch to not like a single change that was made.