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Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#101

I never hear anyone shilling for them, so now is my chance. Anyone who’s looking for a great JIRA alternative, I love Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse). It’s the best task management software I’ve used aside from the “no task management software” option. Very snappy, updates in real time, notifications make sense, and no workflow-manipulation shenanigans.

I would like to advocate for Linear.app as an outstanding, fast, polished alternative to Jira for teams looking for an alternative.

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#102
post #87

If anyone is looking for alternatives, I’ve found Linear.app to be like a breath of fresh air compared to Jira. All I was looking for after the slugfest of Jira was fast performance and keyboard shortcuts, and so far linear has been able to deliver.

Out of curiosity, had you tried Jira Next Gen or only Jira Classic?

Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#103

I never hear anyone shilling for them, so now is my chance. Anyone who’s looking for a great JIRA alternative, I love Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse). It’s the best task management software I’ve used aside from the “no task management software” option. Very snappy, updates in real time, notifications make sense, and no workflow-manipulation shenanigans.

https://prismic.shortcut.com/pricing Their pricing and feature breakdown across plans is a joke. Milestones, reporting and roadmap are all top tier features? They're base features on a product like this.

Not once have I wanted reporting or roadmap functionalities as an engineer. Those are management functions, and task management software should serve the people performing the tasks (engineers) first and foremost. Milestones, that’s a bit debatable but still doesn’t seem like core functionality when you have labels and epics.

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#105

Don't most people self host an instance still? I haven't used it in a few years.

Are you dismissing the importance of points driven scrums? And what about the stories? Won't someone think of the stories?!?

Did consulting work for a place that gave their execs bonuses based on story-point velocity... jesus.

Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#106
post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are the pains of using Jira and confluence?

Trello is also terrible software. It's basically a web interface for agile post-it notes. Compared to decent project management software it has almost no project management features.

can you give me a good project management software to use? alternative to Trello.

Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#107

Anyone know if there's a cloud export option? I'm not an org administrator, but if I were I'd want to keep an offsite backup of our data. I could throw together a script to do it (their APIs are easy to use and their Python module covers pretty much everything) but obvs would be great if you could just do a bulk export.

Yes. You should routinely generate and pull down a backup. We do it once a month.

Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#108
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post #47

We just started moving to JIRA after a few years of Gitlab, where gitlab issues feels like nobody has worked on it for a long time. And Jira has been really great. The sprint boards, concept of mapping statuses to in progress etc have all been great. My one gripe (and it’s not a small one) is performance. It still feels quite sluggish. Is Atlassian ever going to address this?

No, consider that they have an entire team dedicated to their WYSIWYG comment text field and it weighs in at over 20mb(!!!) of JavaScript for a text box. Atlassian absolutely doesn't care about performance, it should've been obvious when they rolled out "new Jira" a couple of years ago and it was just as slow. Their priority is adding new esoteric settings that their top customers demand, hence why their settings tab…

Just as slow?

I’ve been using Jira for almost a decade now. Pretty sure it gets slower and slower.

Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#109
post #87

If anyone is looking for alternatives, I’ve found Linear.app to be like a breath of fresh air compared to Jira. All I was looking for after the slugfest of Jira was fast performance and keyboard shortcuts, and so far linear has been able to deliver.

We use Linear, too, and it’s pretty great. Let me put it this way: literally everyone on the engineering team was happy when we moved to it.
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