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0 pointschrisan9y ago0 comments

Trello is a JIRA competitor based on providing simplicity to task boards.

Why would they JIRA-ify it? They would lose their audience who sought a JIRA alternative in the first place. From their blog post on the subject https://blogs.atlassian.com/2017/01/atlassian-plus-trello/ they seem to acknowledge this

I happen to use, and like, both products. JIRA at work (where I want a lot of the features) and Trello for personal/small group projects and even family/household stuff where I just need _simple_

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wattt9y ago

They will JIRA-fy it or kill it. I use JIRA and pay for it, it is hell on earth for teams of 2-5. We looked into switching to trello to reduce overhead but... It cost more for less features. So we stayed with JIRA.

They will kill trello so everyone is stuck with JIRA. Someone please make a trello clone with reasonable pricing, now!

toyg9y ago

> They will JIRA-fy it or kill it.

Atlassian is not Oracle. I had fears for BitBucket when they bought it, but they seem to have left it alone for the most part.

Sourcetree, on the other hand, got fucked up. How much of that was a strategic decision and how much just plain incompetence (either by Atlassian or the original team), I don't really know.

AnnoyingSwede9y ago

Bitbucket has been a bit Atlassified a bit.. Hipchat plugins are at the root of the system and it's just a question of time before they require hip-chat to be there for some functionality to work. Don't believe me?

An example of this was the integration of HipChat in confluence. Product was fine but now requires HipChat X amount of plugins to be installed (to be able to insert Emojicon's in Confluence, using confluence own menu's).

matthewmacleod9y ago

Trello was ridiculously cheap. I think you're totally out of luck if you expect anybody to make a clone that's cheaper.

ZenoArrow9y ago

>"I think you're totally out of luck if you expect anybody to make a clone that's cheaper."

Better tell the Wekan team they're wasting their time then. ;-)

https://wekan.io/

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BillinghamJ9y ago

$10/user/mo for Trello seems pretty expensive to me. It's a very basic product.

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ukyrgf9y ago

I was a Trello Gold user before they added the Enterprise tier. They seem to have completely forgotten Gold exists because all of their new features are Enterprise-only. I ended up just going back to a free plan.

wattt9y ago

Yeah but if my team has lots of inactive users that starts to add up.

bastawhiz9y ago

> Why would they JIRA-ify it? They would lose their audience who sought a JIRA alternative in the first place.

And yet, Hipchat is a bloated, unreliable mess.

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0 pointschrisan9y ago0 comments

Trello is a JIRA competitor based on providing simplicity to task boards.

I happen to use, and like, both products. JIRA at work (where I want a lot of the features) and Trello for personal/small group projects and even family/household stuff where I just need _simple_

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wattt9y ago

They will kill trello so everyone is stuck with JIRA. Someone please make a trello clone with reasonable pricing, now!

toyg9y ago

> They will JIRA-fy it or kill it.

Atlassian is not Oracle. I had fears for BitBucket when they bought it, but they seem to have left it alone for the most part.

Sourcetree, on the other hand, got fucked up. How much of that was a strategic decision and how much just plain incompetence (either by Atlassian or the original team), I don't really know.

AnnoyingSwede9y ago

matthewmacleod9y ago

Trello was ridiculously cheap. I think you're totally out of luck if you expect anybody to make a clone that's cheaper.

ZenoArrow9y ago

>"I think you're totally out of luck if you expect anybody to make a clone that's cheaper."

Better tell the Wekan team they're wasting their time then. ;-)

https://wekan.io/

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BillinghamJ9y ago

$10/user/mo for Trello seems pretty expensive to me. It's a very basic product.

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ukyrgf9y ago

wattt9y ago

Yeah but if my team has lots of inactive users that starts to add up.

bastawhiz9y ago

> Why would they JIRA-ify it? They would lose their audience who sought a JIRA alternative in the first place.

And yet, Hipchat is a bloated, unreliable mess.

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