New dashboard is now the default experience

[moraesc]

Last year, we introduced a new, productivity-focused dashboard as a feature preview. Since then, many of you have tried it and shared feedback about both the new and previous dashboard experiences.

Based on feedback, we’re making the new new dashboard the default experience for everyone. The new dashboard is designed to provide a focused view of your current work and help you decide what to do next. With it, you can:

• View your active agent sessions, issues, and pull requests in one place.
• Filter each section and display up to 12 items per list.
• Catch up on repository and organization activity in the separate Feed tab.
• Start work directly from the dashboard, such as assigning an issue to Copilot coding agent or opening a pull request in Copilot Chat.

We know there is more work to do. Over the last few weeks, we’ve received a significant amount of thoughtful feedback about the new experience. We’re currently exploring several directions for follow-up improvements based on the themes we’ve heard most consistently. We’ll share more about those improvements in the next few weeks, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, if you prefer the previous dashboard, you can switch back at any time using the dropdown next to Preview.

Please continue sharing your feedback below - particularly what helps you stay productive, what gets in your way, and what you would most like us to improve. Your feedback is helping shape what comes next for the dashboard.

[VariableVince]

On the mobile homepage/dashboard, the Feed isn't offered as an option. So "Catch up on repository and organization activity in the separate Feed tab." is only a possibility on desktop, bar typing /feed in the mobile browser address bar manually.

[elchininet]

This is what "the new dashboard" displays for me:

So, for me it is just pull requests and issues. No stars in my repos, no forks of my repos, no new followers following me. The previous dashboard was a regression for me because I needed to disable everything and just check stars, follows and repositories with the drawback of seeing stars, follows and repositories from every user that I followed once in the past or a repo that I starred once in the past, so the only way to remove something or personalise something is unfollow a user or remove a star from a repo.

Now the new dashboard removes all the information that I find useful, and it just shows pull requests and issues (something that I can see if I want going to those sections).

For me is as easy as providing the user with options to select what is the information they want to see and how they want to filter it. But a real filter, not just a filter to show everything or nothing (like choosing between "showing stars given to your repos and to every repo that you have starred before" or "not showing stars at all"). If you provide options and filters for everything, every user can chose what they want to display in their dashboards, but instead doing that, every six months someone comes with a new dashboard with a total different content and start to experiment with it with the hypothesis that it is what users want.