Forced to use new dashboards?

One tricky thing I noticed which comes into play when you have a whole dashboard full of little key measure widgets (ie a gauge chart report which renders as a single colored number).  Typically you put the widget and you use a text box before the widget to explain what the key measure is.

I see you have to be very careful on New Dashboards because now that these widgets dynamically jump all over the place as you move them around it's very easy to accidentally separate the widget from the text box that explains what key measure of the Widget refers to. You could easily end up with a whole column of Key Measures which are misaligned with their labels.  Also, the new widgets are arguably prettier, but are longer in height, so the lower ones are not visible without scrolling. 

There is certainly an argument to be made for giving Admins the ability to select which style of Dashboard they want to use.

I have my opinion at first glance. Without saying too much, I'm hoping Quickbase has a plan to solve the problems Quickbase Customers are pointing out.

Actually I did a little more playing around with new dashboard widgets and they are growing on me. I realize since the box is a little or a little deeper that I can now put my labels for what the Widget represents inside the box and free up a lot of space I used to use up a whole box for the Rich Text label.    

Mike, 

Take a look at the Discord channel if you haven't already. There is a conversation going on there regarding Tech Debt to these changes.

For example:

It seems that QuickBase customers are going to continuously incur the Tech Debt of updates to the system. 
I don't see a paradigm shift in this update that would cause it to not be automatic. You still have columns. So, QuickBase could and should have scaled it appropriately based upon the column width of the existing Dashboards. The paradigm shift that I was expecting, especially given the fact that QuickBase expects us to upgrade our current dashboards, was doing away with columns all together and allowing the builder to size the widgets and place them in free form. In either case, QuickBase could have adjusted the size of the display by calculating the portion of the screen that widget resides in.