Bring back the ability to order projects on the dashboard arbitrarily
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Ludwig Weinzierl
Before 2021-08-07 it was possible to rearrange the dashboard as desired. This feature was requested by multiple people not long ago:
I was a great feature and a comment in another thread shows that apparently I'm not the only one who was using it:
Even though it doesn't work like that anymore the dashboard tutorial still describes the feature like this:
Unfortunately it was deprecated recently and replaced by the ability to sort by date and alphabetically, as well as a pinning feature.
I find it a pity that the ability to rearrange the dashboard is gone and propose that it is re-added along the sorting options (Newest first, etc.) as an additional option.
Here are my ideas how the feature could be reintroduced:
Because arranging the dashboard is some work, the manual arrangement should be preserved if the user switches to one of the other options temporarily. Pinned projects should be always at the top, no matter what. From my conversation with the (fantastic BTW) ahrefs support I understand that loading time improvements for large dashboards played a role in the change. I think it would be totally OK if - for performance reasons - the ability to arrange manually is disabled for dashboards with a large number of projects. Alternatively the large dashboards would only show the previously arranged projects and a hint that some projects are not shown in this view. These are just my thoughts, looking forward to your all comments!
Andrey Kirillov
Andrey Kirillov
Merged in a post:
Arranging projects is now limited
nicolas@enfusion.es
With the new actualization released some days ago, I lost the possibility to arrange my project in the dashboard by my own criteria. Now I can only choose between newest or eldest first or arrange from A to Z or Z to A, or mark some projects as Favourites to show only those. I have much more ways to arrange my projects and feel limited now. For example I used to arrange my projects by their SEO Health, putting the less healthy ones on top and the healthiest ones on the end of my list, and the Drag'n'Drop system was fantastic, now it's deactivated, which I consider less userfriendly now.
Could you reactivate the Drag'n'Drop function, and add to the arrange filters 2 options?:
1) Order by SEO Health Score
2) Personalized (this might activate the Drag'n'Drop function).
Hope to find an ear! ;-)
Cheers,
Nico
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Paolo
It'a an essential features in order to have a precise sequence of project based on own relevance, please bring it back
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Ludwig Weinzierl
Hello NIcolas,
thanks for reporting this issue. I fully agree and I had already created a feature request regarding this topic a few days ago. You can find it here:
Please consider upvoting there too if you'd like to get this issue more exposure.
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Morgan
+1 here.
This new change has been a horrible shock for my team. Projects were manually organized in a way that made sense for the way we work, and now we're forced into sorting alphabetically, or by date added. "Favorites" is not nearly enough for properly sorting projects.
We need the ability to manually sort, or at least use Tags so there can be some semblance of organization. Please revert this or make it opt-in, it's so bad right now! I don't even like logging in anymore to check my projects because it's a headache to sort through them all.