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Linear – A fast issue tracker

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Re: Linear – A fast issue tracker

#191
It’s good to see the command palette pattern gain adoption. I’ve introduced a few people now to command-space in macOS and they’ve all loved it. Why hunt for an icon when you can just type “TextEdit”?

Maybe a future macOS will allow apps to hook into the spotlight search bar and present their command palettes there, in a standard way?

Re: Linear – A fast issue tracker

#192
Atlassian seems to be one of the slowest software companies. They haven't done much to improve their products in all these years.

Everything they have is ready to be overtaken by a disruptive product.

Re: Linear – A fast issue tracker

#193
I saw many successful examples of teams with super simple boards. Most of them only with built-in Gitlab/Github issue trackers.

When the tooling provides too many options, you will start adding complexity to your workflow without considering real benefits.

Re: Linear – A fast issue tracker

#196

I haven’t tried Linear, but while browsing the site I couldn’t help but notice what an exquisite job the designer did with the Linear site. It’s consistent, lightweight, it has pleasant proportions, a nice color theme, etc. It’s also sprinkled with all kinds of little details that show care, attention and craftsmanship. I wish I’d see more sites like this.

How was it built? Any clue?

Re: Linear – A fast issue tracker

#197
post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So cloud hosted Jira is misconfigured?

I would assume they mean “you have not set up your JIRA workflow according to your needs”

Which would be a fairly rubbish take, because when it's my workflow, it's MY WORKFLOW. What they might mean is "I have not set up my workflow according to Jira's needs" which is entirely Jira's problem to solve.

Re: Linear – A fast issue tracker

#198
post #57

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Hello. Looks good on the screenshots, I'd love to try it for my team but the signup link somehow sends me to Google instead of signup. /s How do I try it? On a side note, I use Edge on a Mac and the signup page doesn't detect my browser as compatible; it's just Chromium inside, must be totally compatible with everything.

This shouldn't be the case. Would you mind sharing screenshots of the link you're pressing, preferably with video to hello@ our domain? We'll investigate. In the meantime, you can signup/login here: https://linear.app/login On browser detection, we need to look at Edge. I don't think we updated the list in a while (we support all evergreen browsers).

Oh thank you! This link did work!

Re: Linear – A fast issue tracker

#199

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I was a JIRA admin for a number of years for an organization that had a heavy QA workflow. It was all about making sure that every issue had an "owner," at any given time, a strict approval and verification process was followed, and that as much up-front data as possible was collected during the initial report. In my experience, unless the people entering the issues are paid, professional engineers, we'll never get t…

In my experience, it isn't Jira that people hate, it is the horrible rules and bureaucracy-ridden workflows that Jira allows an admin to implement. My team switched back to Jira after trying several other tools and we're pretty happy.

We're in what I tend to think of as Jira's pit of despair: there's no explicit support for the on-prem instance; workflow configuration regularly seems to go wrong and has a wide blast radius when it does; nobody trusts the data so we don't get any useful reporting out of it; the UI is... not exactly slow, but I wouldn't call it snappy either; and there's no money for addons that would genuinely help us.

Github Projects would be absolutely fine for us, but we can't switch out because Jira is "what everyone uses" and "has more features", despite us not really using any of them.

Re: Linear – A fast issue tracker

#200
post #3

We've been using Linear for a couple months. It's kind of like Superhuman in that the primary benefit is hotkeys. Otherwise it is an issue tracker. I think the reason we see a steady stream of new issue trackers is that teams are trying to fix with software what are people problems. New issue trackers feel faster for the same reason switching browsers tends to feel faster—you're getting rid of all of the crap you pil…

> New issue trackers feel faster for the same reason switching browsers tends to feel faster

It's not necessary about faster process, but Jira is agonizingly slow: each click triggers a cascade of HTTP requests in a synchronous way and it literally takes seconds every time you want to do something. Everytime I have to touch it, I feel angry for the next hour just because of the induced frustration. Any tool more responsive would be an improvement for me.

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