makeplane / makeplane/plane

[bug]: Rounded dot has unclear semantics in issue filter UI

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Since Jul 21, 2025.

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Description

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Current behavior

Two rounded dot UI elements appear in the issue filtering UI:

  1. When I set a filter condition on a view, there is a blue dot on the filter menu button.
  2. When I create an active phase, it is marked with a pulse-animated blue dot in the filter menu.

From the source code I can infer that 1 means a filter condition is set and 2 marks that it's an active phase, but both are non-intuitive for a beginner.

I expect that Plane doesn't use similar UI elements as indicators for wildly different purposes, especially the blue dot which often represents an unread notification or hint for a new feature.

Steps to reproduce
  1. Set a filter condition in issue view.
  2. Open the filter menu
  3. Observe two blue dots with different semantics.
Environment

Production

Browser

Safari

Variant

Cloud

Version

cloud

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