Bye bye user filtering

Sometimes the best thing the makers of a website can do is remove a feature. It’s certainly uncommon in this age of software bloat and it can be painful if some of your customers have grown accustomed to the feature.  The pain, though, is often worth it because it helps to ensure that the site stays lean and is remarkably simple to use.

A few months ago, we introduced a new way to look at your tasks by allowing you to filter the tasks by user. We were thinking that the filter would simplify the view and help our customers to see only the tasks they needed to see.

The reality is that my own tasks are the most important thing to see when I click a category.  And seeing other people’s tasks grouped by each user underneath my own tasks is actually much more useful than we realized. An extra bonus is that removing the user filter area of the sidebar makes the page even simpler.  This was a case where we think our first instinct was actually right.

We’re pretty thrilled about the change and we hope you like it as well.

We have a number of exciting improvements for No Kahuna coming soon in the next few weeks.  We’re planning on making some significant performance improvements and we’re designing a simple way for tasks to be tagged which will allow you to slice and dice tasks in ways we can’t even foresee.