Dean Phillips:

Yes, this is among the worst implementation of Activity Stream feature I came across.

If this is the MVP, then it should be called that with roadmap set for its evolution, and expectations should be managed via proper communication, and this comm is missing.

The same is true of "Pulse" and "Home" features. They are very limited with what they offer and their value add at this point is questionable, yet they are announced as best new things that will help improve work in significant ways. No, they will not. Just take a look at number of topic generated on this forum around i.e. Pulse feature - 3. With 2 of them being negative. And compare this with "Goal" for example who have 50+ topics opened.

The point is that ClickUp team is rushing out to release features every week and as a consequence the quality suffers. Weekly releases should not be a driving force but rather the quality of the released material, and if that requires monthly or quarterly releases, that is perfectly all right.

Half baked features missing major components will not attract new users, but rather will turn them away.

Dean Phillips:

Sorry, did not have time to respond in full. Good discussion is needed and don't worry about offending me.

As for your specific questions:

---> To access activity stream, users now need to go away from the task at hand, which breaks the line of thought and requires extra cognitive effort to go back.

Let's say you reviewing a sprint progress in the board view and to see what has been moved on that board and to comment on it, you need to go away on it and search through the entries for a particular card and then you have to go back to it to comment on the card. And this back and forth would need to be done mulitipel times.

Better options would be:

--> breadcrumbs are making the view too busy

There should be an option to hide the breadcrumbs

---> highlighting inconsistencies

i.e. take these two activities:

"You set the due date to May 11"

"You assigned to: You"

In 1st activity "You" at the beginning and at the end of the sentence is highlighted.

In 2nd activity only "You" is highlighted. Applying the logic from the 1st activity, user would expect that "May 11" is highlighted as well as that is an attributed that got changed by user action.

---> task description edits are not captured in the activity stream

What you get is the line that say: "You edited task description" but the content is not offered. This means that an extra effort needs to be taken go see the changes. But where do you click. Naturally, you'd click on "You edited task description" , but alas, that line is not clickable. Now you need to go to the line above to click on the actual task title and not on the breadcrumb which is directly above this line. So you need to go up and then right.

---> not able to respond to comments from activity stream

---> activity related to comments is not clickable

i.e. somebody comments on a task and assigns this task to you. Activity stream says.

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User Name commented;

"Please take a look at this today"

Assigned to me

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This is all within a white box and the only entry that is clickable here is "User Name".

Hence, for me to go and review this comment in detail and respond to it or to resolve it, I need to click on the task name which is 4 lines above from where my eyes are.

---> goals actions and changes are not captured in the activity stream

---> documents actions and changes are not captured in the activity stream

---> notepad actions and changes are not captured in the activity stream

---> ability to take action from the stream is not enabled

----> reminders are not captured in the activity stream

----> global filters are not present. meaning, you cannot display activity from 2 projects in 1 stream.

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And there are numerous examples like above....

Plus, activity stream in general is not pleasant for the eye.

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Now, there are advantages in offering the activity stream as a new view that can be placed anywhere, and I hope down the road the activity stream will offered as a widget within the dashboard, as that would enable the user to see the things in context.

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The point is: this is a half baked feature that falls extremely short of expectations and will not help user adoption. What this basically does it takes activity from individual tasks and dumps it onto one screen. Bad bad idea and bad execution.

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---> Many of them: ServiceNow, TargetProcess, Jira, Confluence, Salesforce, Clarizen, Mavenlink, etc...

---> from design perspective, though lacking in functionality, good examples would be: Basecamp, Clubhouse

---> HubSpot has a clean and focused implementation with action buttons that are perfectly positioned and straight to the point

---> Teamwork has a good implementation across all entity items

etc...

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Hope this helps...

Cheers!