Copilot app feedback: sidebar bugs, missing workflow features, and unanswered reports

[andriy-ah]

I'm frustrated with the GitHub Copilot desktop app. In my experience, it is behind OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code in everyday usability, functionality, and reliability. Competing tools keep adding capabilities, including recent code modification features, while basic problems in Copilot remain unresolved.

Sidebar grouping bugs

When I group sessions by project and use a local folder rather than an isolated worktree, changing branches or creating a PR and updating the branch causes the sidebar to regroup and rearrange chats unexpectedly. The organization breaks, making existing conversations hard to find.

Grouping by date starts out working, but after I complete some chats, the grouping and ordering become confusing again. Completing one chat should not disrupt the organization of the remaining chats.

I expect both grouping modes to stay predictable as branches change and sessions are completed.

Missing workflow features

• The embedded browser needs a way to set exact viewport dimensions. Compared with the browser experience in VS Code, it feels limited for testing responsive layouts.
• The session changes view needs separate views for unstaged changes, staged changes, uncommitted changes from the latest agent run, and changes already committed in the session. Please look at how other development tools handle these views and switching between them.
• I need an artifact creation and company-sharing workflow comparable to what I can do with OpenAI and Anthropic tools. Creating something locally is not the same as sharing it with coworkers through a supported company workspace.
• Enterprise and business accounts need more organization-wide settings and controls for users. The company-level experience feels limited compared with ChatGPT and Claude.
• The selection of official connectors is much smaller than in competing apps. I would like more officially supported integrations with the services used in everyday work.

Feedback and issue follow-through

I have already filed GitHub issues and received no response. From a user's perspective, those reports appear neglected. Although this repository provides a reporting channel, I have not found an effective feedback loop that tells me whether a report has been acknowledged, triaged, or scheduled for a fix.

I'd like the team to prioritize sidebar stability, address these workflow gaps, and provide clearer responses and status updates on user reports. Is there a recommended way to get existing reports triaged, and which of these gaps are on the roadmap?

[vurbanas-ah]

i am experiencing the same sessions sorting bug, it is really annoying, please do something about it