What is going on here just a few days ago I saw the option to try the new interface, it specifically told me I can switch back. I didn’t even opt to try it, and now it’s mandatory. I’m lost and I have shit to do! This is totally unacceptable. Give us a real ramp up/heads up that we have a few months to try out the new interface, this feels so tone deaf.
Instead of trying to change how things look. WHERE IS MOBILE APP functionality. We’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting on a core feature announced LAST bubble con and this is what you’re working on?
Also this interface is hideous, you can’t see anything at once - the old view that let you see 30 things at once in a long process is now tons of scrolling and all this blank space - what are you guys thinking. If this is where bubble thinks we need to go, I am going to seriously re-think my goals of building on this platform.
The new vertical layout for workflows in Bubble is incredibly frustrating to use.
The previous horizontal layout allowed for a clearer, more natural way to visualize the flow of logic. Now, with everything stacked vertically, it’s much harder to maintain a sense of structure. You can’t easily see how steps relate to each other, and the overall logic becomes difficult to follow especially when working with more complex workflows.
To make matters worse, the new step boxes are tiny and hard to read. There’s a lot of unnecessary scrolling, and context is constantly lost. I’m currently editing a workflow with 20 steps, and by the time I get to step 5, I already feel disconnected from the big picture.
It’s mentally exhausting trying to hold the logic together in this format.
This update has made workflows less intuitive, harder to manage, and more error-prone. It’s a huge step backward in usability.
Totally agree. Even if it was a huge step forward I can not comprehend how we are supposed to adjust our entire workflow to the most complicated and most important part of our apps literally overnight? The message that I could “switch back at any time” was literally on the screen yesterday. Today I’m wishing I pulled an all nighter - because 3hrs of work just became “I have no idea if I will even be able to accomplish it by next week”
I had so much more confidence in bubble. What else is out there these days? (I’m serious).
Many people complain about the difficulty of finding a workflow… let’s face it: in 90% of cases, you access it directly from the properties editor by clicking on the element that triggers it.
For the rest, try using folders, naming your workflows correctly, custom events… and, crazy idea: reusable elements.
Oh dear. Just back from holiday to find this. My dev time has just increased 100% - what a crazy move. Don’t like it at all. Probably works for people with 2 pages, 2 databases and a few fields.
I agree with so many other comments here. This change makes development objectively slower and is half-baked (e.g., the folder drop-down icon). The fact that I am being forced to adopt it is insane. I may be too entrenched to move my current apps to another platform, but I am certainly not recommending Bubble while these issues persist.
Previously, I could view all these 23 workflow actions at once in a single, horizontal layout. This made it easy to grasp the full logic at a glance and gave me a strong sense of control over the entire workflow.
Now, with the new vertical scrolling interface, that clarity is gone. You’re constantly scrolling up and down, losing track of where you are. It quickly becomes confusing, and it’s far too easy to lose the logical thread of what you’re building.
Extremely long workflows is bad practice in general (even in the old UI). Nest your workflows into custom events. Especially if you have conditions like those.
Create custom events for common or branching workflows.
Actually, this is a lot easier with the new editor, as you can easily go back to other workflows, you can scroll to other workflows whilst still seeing the selected workflow’s actions, and can see everywhere that triggers a particular workflow.
On your planet maybe. But in this reality you can’t come tell me that having to scroll endlessly in a side menu (where the names of workflows are truncated) is better than having a view of 50+ workflows right in front of me, with the selected workflow actions right underneath. No sir.
Compact mode and starting to understand the purpose of the changes does help.. quite a bit - but I still think it’s crazy to think that this userbase doesn’t need a set period of time to expect and prepare for a change like this.
When I went to sleep last night I had a box that said “try the new UI, change back anytime you like”. That is not consistent messaging with reality
I think you misunderstood my complaint. Someone that had lots of very short, simple workflows would not be complaining about losing screen real estate for long complicated workflows.
But even if my use of this tool was not as efficient as others might be capable of, that does not justify mandatory UI changes without a proper warning and ramp-up. Yes they told us we could check it out for a while, but that’s not the same thing. What should have happened this morning was (at worst) every time you load the workflows page, it defaults to new UI and you have to switch it back and it pops up a warning that says - this function will be removed by August 1st, 2025… etc.
