Allow us to show/hide sidebar items on the website

Hi everyone! Just weighing in here that we are indeed hearing this issue loud-and-clear and actively investigating ways to only have a right-sidebar element when it's useful, such as when Mac and PC folder/file views allow you to preview a thumbnail of the content while still having access to your list of files.

Importantly, we hear that you want to be the ones to control when this happens, not Dropbox.

Get rid of this. 

Companies are rude and audacious when they take up your desktop and refuse to be deleted.

Outrageous!

Note I love dropbox but this stinks

Hi Megan,

Great to hear it is passed on for review.

In my opinion only 7 years overdue ...

Hope that the review will actually lead to change.

Who thought of that right side bar constantly expanding (so annoying) when you click on a file in a folder?! Who thought that actually was helpful should be FIRED. That thing is so annoying. I'm paying over 199/year so you can force that right side bar out LITERALLY every time I choose a file. What kind of sadistic product development crack was the person smoking? Make it STOP. If I wanted the right bar to expand I can do it myself. I do not need Dropbox to expand it!

Holy bleep! Elsewhere we are assured that Dropbox staff reads all our comments, yet still, after all these years, there isn't a setting to minimize the right sidebar by default? What are we all missing? Has there been a huge outpouring of support for the sidebar, people insisting that it remain as is, open by default? Would it take more than a couple of hours to fix the damned thing?

Dropbox please hire a few UI experts. The right side bar takes up a lot of real estate, is mostly blank, and nobody asked for it. Collapsing of sidebars is standard UI design, even Adobe Acrobat has it (and Adobe isn't exactly at the forefront of UI design).

The general pattern is this: Dropbox adds features that nobody asked for instead of adding those that thousands of users have been asking for for years, such as better file search functionality.

Dropbox.... please.... you don't understand how absolutely $%&@ing horrible it is using your entire site. Give me a way to disable the sidebar popping up. I don't need to see a giant blank space with no comments, I need to see the document I'm trying to open. No one on my team collaborates this way. It takes up a full third of the screen!! And, when I close the sidebar, please don't make the document full-screen! My eyes work just fine - please just zoom to 100%. 

Please.... I'm begging you. 

I can't believe there's not a way to roll back a view to what it was previously. I HATE the new view!!!  WHY would I want 1/3 of my screen blank on the Right side? Please dropbox! Use your heads! Let your customers have a voice! Or we'll go somewhere that dose.

Suzanne Alton

I agree that the right hand side bar is too large and takes up too much space. There must be a way to turn this off or reduce the width.