Improve consistency of activity filter options across objects

[franksteiner79]

With the recent wave of prodcut updates, I have noticed less attention being paid to the small but important details. One example is the inconsistency of available activity filters across various HubSpot objects, in particular list memberships.

For as far as I can remember we could filter for list membership updates at contact level:

With the introduction of company, deal, and other object lists - these are being used build segments, act as workflow enrolment triggers, etc. So far so good, but what if I want to troubleshoot some issues concerning when or why an object was added or removed from these lists? Well, I am bit **bleep** because there I do not have the option to filter by list memberships in any other object activity feed. 

Frankly, I don't get it. Building a list for an object becomes a feature, so should the ability to filter by "list membership" updates. This is often (if not always) my first go to point for troubleshooting to establish a timeline, quickly see what else happened before digging deeper into what changed and why, in order to work out why something has changed that we were not expecting.

I know the official HubSpot line is "not cobbled but crafted", in this case it does feel a lot more cobbled than crafted. A focus on consistent UX/UI experience would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[cecilia-thespot]

Hi all,

Here I am in the year of our lord 2025 still waiting on HubSpot to deliver something they know their customers need.

The ability to edit records directly on the Index Page Views has been introduced, but they left Lists in the dust and records still cannot be edited directly from the List page the way that they can be from a View tab.

You might say, "who cares? Just use a View tab if that's your problem." And you would be absolutely right to think that is the most obvious solution, except that the filters available on a View tab and on a List are DIFFERENT. That's right. You can't set up a View the same way you can set up a List, so I am still left without a solution. 

Now you might follow up with, "but Cecilia, can't you just create a list and then create a view and make the filter on the view reference list membership of your list?" and the answer to that would be "yes, I can." However! HubSpot has a limit on the number of lists you can have within your account. This is a generous limit, but I still bristle at the idea of being forced to create an asset that counts towards a limit, when that asset SHOULD be completely unnecessary to create in the first place. 

I am doing extra work to create an extra and unnecessary asset that is going to clog up my instance for no reason other than that HubSpot struggles with consistently applying features across their platform and that honestly doesn't leave me feeling stoked. 

The solutions here are twofold:

1. Update the filters on the Index Pages "views" so the same filters that are available in other places in HubSpot are available here

2. Update the List view page so that records can be updated directly from there the same way they can be from a View tab on an Index page

The post I referenced above has 86 upvotes and 51 comments and is from FIVE YEARS AGO.

This post requesting this feature has 8 upvotes and 2 comments and is over a year old. 

Another post here asking how to do this has 10 upvotes and 3 replies and is also five years old. Here is the Idea Forum post from the same user requesting this feature. It seems the response she received was, in fact, not satisfactory, but in 2025, she still hasn't had the feature she was asking for introduced. Doesn't give me a lot of hope that any of my requested features will ever be developed, but I am assured that the forum is definitely monitored. 

This post is asking for filters in another area, but is again pointing out the inconsistencies customers face daily when navigating HubSpot. It has 9 upvotes.

Here is one last post requesting this feature with 2 upvotes and one comment.

Total of 115 upvotes and 57 comments. I sure hope I don't have to wait another five years to be able to accomplish this task. I don't think my boss is going to love that timeline.