Rollback to old web GUI

RouterOS General
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Hello!

The new “modern” GUI is worse than the old one in several ways:

  • Navigating the left-hand menu now requires extra clicks; popups are less convenient than the old expandable lists.
  • Inline comments are problematic—long comments are cut off and not easily readable.
  • There’s no way to remove or disable an item with a single click.
  • Menu items have been moved around (e.g., actions are now on the far right, for some reason).

…And that feedback is just after five minutes with the new GUI.

That mini rant brings me to a question: how can I roll back to the previous, legacy web GUI?

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AFAIK, you can’t. Unless you keep using an older version.

And, you can add “No Status Screen” to the list of grips / MIA in new WebFig…

I think they were trying to align WinBox4 UI with WebFig. Personally, I’d let the dust settle on WinBox4, and wait until V8 for changing the web UI…MikroTik made other choices.

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You don’t get to choose web GIU style, there’s only one shipped with ROS version. So if you want legacy web GUI, then you have to downgrade ROS to version with legacy web GUI (could be somewhere around 7.16, I don’t remember since I (almost exclusively) use CLI.

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Yeah I don’t use web UI directly, but we did use the “status” page so a customer can use webfig to see some basic stats via web. So in my case, I lost functionality, beyond just the WebFig4-everywhere look-and-feel.

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Ehh, I was hoping it can be achieved with some custom skins :confused:

I hope Mikrotik brings back the features they took from us.

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I also like the classic interface and Winbox, but most likely we won’t be able to influence this.

The users will decide for us, who will either buy Mikrotik or not.

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+1 here. It would be a great feature if we could choose between skins (and/or have the ability to select the old style).

@Mikrotik staff: maybe you could do a poll or something to see if it’s worth implementing?

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This will strain their resource if they have two code base to maintain we would rather ask MT to concentrate more on pressing stuff that matters (routing & switching), In my humbly opinion if you don’t like webfig then use winbox instead

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When Winbox (4) has same look. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Sad to see an interface like old WebFig that maybe has gone through many iterations and years of refinements be just thrown away. It was not perfect (I hated to be logged out on page reload), sure it looked dated but it did the job. In my first few months of Mikrotik I used WebFig. I never liked WinBox (later I found out, that I even can’t trust WinBox. But different story). WebFig had a nice status page feature and quickset was already good layouted. Now, in WinBox 4 I found out recently that QuickSet is completely screwed up into tabs and collapsibles. I could not believe my eyes what Mikrotik did to QuickSet. Again, also a different thing. Last time I visited WebFig was around the time it received the “design overhaul” in 7.16 IIRC. The little changes to old skin in 7.15 were already suboptimal but the facelift in 7.16 did kill all the usability. I accepted the fact, that modern looking UI and poor usability has priority. Since then I did not visit WebFig anymore.

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Any ETA for v8?