Hi Hive team,

We're an agency on Hive with ~17 people, and our teams spend , on boards that regularly hold 30+ open actions per project. Card density isn't a cosmetic detail for us — it's the single thing that decides how much of a board we can take in at once.

Every card reserves a fixed amount of vertical space regardless of its content. A card with a one-line title takes up almost as much room as one with three lines, and the gap between the title and the indicator row is empty white space that carries no information.

On a normal desktop screen this is the difference between . When you're scanning priorities across four columns — a bird's-eye pass over the week — that ratio is everything. Right now that pass means scrolling every column separately, and you lose the overview in the process.

I wrote a custom CSS override that collapses the padding, removes the flex inside the card, and hides the label/status/timer blocks. The result is in the second screenshot: the same boards, triple the actions visible, with zero loss of anything we actually read — title, due date, priority, comments, subtask count and assignee are all still there.

Here's the CSS, in case it's useful as a reference for what we're asking for:

```css

.kanban-list-items [data-slot="card-content"]:has(> .label-section),

.kanban-list-items [data-slot="card-content"]:has(> .status-container),

.kanban-list-items [data-slot="card-content"]:has(> .time-tracking-section) {

display: none !important;

}

.kanban-list-items .action-card-wrapper > [data-slot="context-menu-trigger"] {

height: auto !important;

min-height: 0 !important;

gap: 4px !important;

row-gap: 4px !important;

padding-block: 6px !important;

}

.kanban-list-items .action-card-wrapper [data-slot="card-header"],

.kanban-list-items .action-card-wrapper [data-slot="card-footer"] {

padding-block: 0 !important;

min-height: 0 !important;

gap: 0 !important;

row-gap: 0 !important;

}

.kanban-list-items .action-card-wrapper .action-title {

min-height: 0 !important;

line-height: 1.3 !important;

margin: 0 !important;

}

.kanban-list-items .action-card-wrapper {

margin-block: 4px !important;

}

```

It's a browser extension on one machine. We can't realistically ask 17 people to install and maintain a userstyle, it breaks silently on every front-end release of yours, and new team members start on the default view anyway. It's a patch, not something we can roll out.

A for the Kanban view — ideally a density toggle (comfortable / compact) alongside the existing view settings, so each user picks their own, with cards sizing themselves to their content instead of to a fixed height.

If that's heavy on your side, even just in the view configuration — so a hidden block stops reserving its vertical space — would recover most of the benefit.

Two questions:

Screenshots attached: the first is the current default, the second is the same boards with the CSS applied.

Thanks,