diff --git a/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb b/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb
index 8f06a6735841f67c76ab5a7f2576f390acf85180..2822d510e504c381143c3f0bc41098e631519cfa 100644
--- a/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/dashboard_controller.rb
@@ -5,15 +5,9 @@ class DashboardController < ApplicationController
   before_filter :event_filter, only: :show
 
   def show
-    @projects_limit = 20
-    @groups = current_user.authorized_groups.order_name_asc
-    @has_authorized_projects = @projects.count > 0
-    @projects_count = @projects.count
     @projects = @projects.includes(:namespace)
     @last_push = current_user.recent_push
 
-    @publicish_project_count = Project.publicish(current_user).count
-
     respond_to do |format|
       format.html
 
diff --git a/app/views/dashboard/_groups.html.haml b/app/views/dashboard/_groups.html.haml
deleted file mode 100644
index e3df43d88921f16b51a61b4a727106253d7a4de2..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/app/views/dashboard/_groups.html.haml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-.panel.panel-default
-  .panel-heading.clearfix
-    .input-group
-      = search_field_tag :filter_group, nil, placeholder: 'Filter by name', class: 'dash-filter form-control'
-      - if current_user.can_create_group?
-        .input-group-addon.dash-new-group
-          = link_to new_group_path, class: "" do
-            %strong New group
-  %ul.well-list.dash-list
-    - groups.each do |group|
-      %li.group-row
-        = link_to group_path(id: group.path), class: dom_class(group) do
-          .dash-project-avatar
-            = image_tag group_icon(group.path), class: "avatar s40"
-          %span.group-name.filter-title
-            = truncate(group.name, length: 35)
-          %span.arrow
-            %i.fa.fa-angle-right
-    - if groups.blank?
-      %li
-        .nothing-here-block You have no groups yet.
diff --git a/app/views/dashboard/_sidebar.html.haml b/app/views/dashboard/_sidebar.html.haml
index 983da4aba04a17df8acdde1d9391fa24dcabab90..78f695be9160396b2f12a3517ff0cb1e207f6ee3 100644
--- a/app/views/dashboard/_sidebar.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/dashboard/_sidebar.html.haml
@@ -1,18 +1,3 @@
-%ul.nav.nav-tabs.dash-sidebar-tabs
-  %li.active
-    = link_to '#projects', 'data-toggle' => 'tab', id: 'sidebar-projects-tab' do
-      Projects
-      %span.badge= @projects_count
-  %li
-    = link_to '#groups', 'data-toggle' => 'tab', id: 'sidebar-groups-tab' do
-      Groups
-      %span.badge= @groups.count
-
-.tab-content
-  .tab-pane.active#projects
-    = render "dashboard/projects", projects: @projects
-  .tab-pane#groups
-    = render "dashboard/groups", groups: @groups
-
+= render "dashboard/projects", projects: @projects
 .prepend-top-20
   = render 'shared/promo'
diff --git a/app/views/dashboard/_zero_authorized_projects.html.haml b/app/views/dashboard/_zero_authorized_projects.html.haml
index 6e76f95b34e62315fe1354f0524eed8de4f03257..4e7d66397276efd4090e82acea5fa1944d35ec57 100644
--- a/app/views/dashboard/_zero_authorized_projects.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/dashboard/_zero_authorized_projects.html.haml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+- publicish_project_count = Project.publicish(current_user).count
 %h3.page-title Welcome to GitLab!
 %p.light Self hosted Git management application.
 %hr
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@
           %i.fa.fa-plus
           New Group
 
--if @publicish_project_count > 0
+-if publicish_project_count > 0
   %hr
   %div
     .dashboard-intro-icon
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@
     .dashboard-intro-text
       %p.slead
         There are
-        %strong= @publicish_project_count
+        %strong= publicish_project_count
         public projects on this server.
         %br
         Public projects are an easy way to allow everyone to have read-only access.
diff --git a/app/views/dashboard/groups/index.html.haml b/app/views/dashboard/groups/index.html.haml
index fd7bbb5500cdc1c8908ef5b2bb5f395718e91a03..50e90b1c17041273be6b83a17f152f9ca85a66b1 100644
--- a/app/views/dashboard/groups/index.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/dashboard/groups/index.html.haml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
               %i.fa.fa-sign-out
               Leave
 
+        = image_tag group_icon(group.path), class: "avatar s40 avatar-tile"
         = link_to group, class: 'group-name' do
           %strong= group.name
 
diff --git a/app/views/dashboard/show.html.haml b/app/views/dashboard/show.html.haml
index f973f4829a082b420b761d45e03bcbb88aeecc24..fa8946011b741331df864f866420150af171f20c 100644
--- a/app/views/dashboard/show.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/dashboard/show.html.haml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-- if @has_authorized_projects
+- if @projects.any?
   .dashboard.row
     %section.activities.col-md-8
       = render 'activities'