I have been frustrated at the difficulty in locating my custom blocks within the Block Layout screen. I read a bunch of the open issues about block-related UX issues, but couldn't quite find my particular concerns addressed anywhere.
I had a customer run into this scenario today. They wanted to know where a particular custom block was being used (which pages it was assigned to). But.. in order to do that, you have to locate that block on the Block Layout screen knowing only the block description, but the block description is not shown on Block Layout; it only shows the block *titles*. And those titles could be totally different from whatever the blocks' descriptions are.
I eventually found it by using Chrome's CTRL+F to look for certain keywords.. after trying to configure a half dozen blocks I finally found the right one. I attached screenshots of the process.
My proposed solution is along the lines of some early D8 UX proposals I saw (I saw some of the mockups). I would like to see the block descriptions alongside the block titles on Block Layout. I attached screenshots of how it looks in 8.2.3 vs how I propose it could look with block descriptions included. Perhaps the block descriptions could be optional.. and could be toggled on and off, so people could preserve the clutter-free look except when they need to hunt down a particular block instance (like I described above).
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It's likely this issue predates Contrib.social: some issue and comment data are missing.
Now that block_content is moved to content has it got any easier?
Since there has been no movement going to close out. If still a problem finding please reopen but updating issue summary as block library has moved.