Allow us to show/hide sidebar items on the website

If you go to https://www.dropbox.com/home the page is divided into three areas: files in the center and two left and right side bars.

The two side bars take a lot of space such that folder/file names in the center are shortened too much. This is very disturbing. I am using Chrome browser.

I would suggest to develop a solution, e.g. to hide/unhide or resize the two side bars.

In the meanwhile, one is forced to either open a single browser window and resize onto two screens, or reduce the font.

As of February 2020, there is way too little screen space available for the user to view their actual files. 

Over 20% of the screen is eaten up by the Left Sidebar (Files, My File, Photos, Shared, File Requests, Deleted Files). Over 30% is wasted on the Right Sidebar (Upload files, Upload folder, New folder, New shared folder, Request files, Show deleted files, Rewind, ...)

There is currently no way to re-size or collapse or show/hide either of the offending Sidebars. This leaves us with less than 50% for the center pane where our actual files are displayed. The center pane is all we users care about 80% of the time.

This misguided design is especially punishing when we are working in "List" view. We can't tell one file from another because the filenames are truncated to a ridiculously few characters just so they can be squeezed into that tiny center pane! We use "List" view to quickly scan the files and know what filenames we are looking at. We do *not* want to hover over every truncated filename to see the full name, and then *try* to remember which file was which after the hover window closes.

The current three-pane view looks much like an Adobe Acrobat view, but at least Adobe allows us to hide the side panes, opening up the center screen for actual work.

Come on, Dropbox. I've been with you since 2006, but this flaw is painful enough to send me to one of your competitors if not fixed. 

File display is too small !

Hi Eden

I can see that making sense, thanks for the suggestion! Btw, I moved your thread to 'Product Feedback' so other people can chime in with suggestions too. 

Are there any specific items that you're not using at all and would like to be hidden by default?

Well, I'm on Dropbox Business, but I use it as an individual for the sole purpose of the unlimited space... so things like:

• Personal (don't have a Personal account as there's no need)
• Team (No need for it)
• Photos (It's pretty useless as it indexes everything... 75% of which aren't what I'd consider "photos")
• Events (with the addition of Recents, I don't ever see me going back in there)
• Admin Console (I don't need to see that unless I need to go in there, which is rare)

It would be nice to be able to just clean up that sidebar to make it streamlined to a particular workflow.

Interesting points Eden. Being a Dropbox Business user, I assume you have other team members who may share similar feedback. Do you feel the same happens to them? (feel free to ask them to join this discussion and post their thoughts too)

Thanks again!

I have no other team members. I only have Business for the unlimited storage space.

Oh ok. Thanks for sharing. I'll pass your feedback internally. 

Thanks. I know it's possible to hide items via a browser extension by hacking into the CSS, but... rather not have to go that route.

Yeah - I get you. Thanks again and please keep sending feedback, really appreciate it (even if I or other Dropbox employees don't reply to it, we read it here!)

This is feedback on the web interface; I find the sidebars include a lot of blank space, which is not great when working in a window.  I would like the option to resize, minimize or even hide them.

If the window is maximized to full screen it's better, and I do see the responsive design if I really shrink the window, but the left side has so much empty and the right side is normally not used when I'm in a plain 'folder' (not a 'space').  The option to tuck it away would be great.

My 2¢ :-)