Scrollable columns on Milestones!
Before we dive in...
Earlier this year we asked our users to rate if they would recommend HuBoard to a friend or colleague. The results were very valuable! Not because we scored high or low, but instead it's because I received dozens of emails full of extremely well thought-out feature requests, bug reports, & great ideas.
Compiling and digesting all this data took some time (Ryan and I were in the middle of Techstars Cloud 2016). The majoriy of it can be condensed into two themes:
UX Polish, especially around columns and cards
Performance, slow switching between tabs & missing events
Since then, we have stabilized the board state considerably (better coverage of events from GitHub, real-time board sync), added support for issue templates, & many other various tweaks and fixes.
I'm excited to share that today we are releasing a whole suite of additional changes and improvements that have been in the works for some time, this is just the beginning of many UX upgrades on the way over the coming months:
Scrollable columns
To start with, scrolling on individual milestone columns has been enabled! Conducting a planning meeting on HuBoard from the milestones tab on a board with many cards has been a painful experience in the past (you find a card and drag it into a column you can't see for instance). Our new scrolling behavior improves this workflow immensely.
Horizontal scrolling
For projects with more milestones than can fit on the screen...
Progress 'Power Bar'
Reducing card size on milestones has been a frequent request, this is just the first step. We have replaced the breadcrumbs with a more compact 'Power Bar’.
Milestone tab performance
Switching to milestones can take a long time. The render speed of the milestones tab has been greatly improved.
IE & Edge browsers
This will be a work in progress, but we have improved HuBoard support for Microsoft browsers.
Thats all for now!
There is much more in the works, take a look at our high level roadmap here to get an idea of whats next!
Check out HuBoards milestones for a live demo of the changes!
Thoughts? Feedback? We would love to hear what you think of these changes. tweet, ping us in-app, or email us
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