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Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Great service. I hope they start charging for the service soon.

From your perspective, why? AFAIK, it's not like it's a social network where you get an increase in value with the filtering charging brings.

I love Trello, but cannot commit to using it more for business until I have an expectation of service, which comes from paying for it. They're awesome, but they owe me nothing, and that's just too risky.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Great service. I hope they start charging for the service soon.

From your perspective, why? AFAIK, it's not like it's a social network where you get an increase in value with the filtering charging brings.

It's an amazing service but the more I use it the more I become reliant on it. As it stands I don't have any justifiable expectation that they will continue to provide the service to me which makes me nervous.

I use it for a lot of smaller projects but am sometimes uncomfortable using it for larger, longer term ones due to the lack of any sort of contractual relationship.

It's not that I really think they're going to stop providing it at a moments notice - those guys have a great track record - but paying for it (or having the option to) would provide that extra layer of reassurance that I can expect a given level of service.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

From your perspective, why? AFAIK, it's not like it's a social network where you get an increase in value with the filtering charging brings.

I love Trello, but cannot commit to using it more for business until I have an expectation of service, which comes from paying for it. They're awesome, but they owe me nothing, and that's just too risky.

That makes sense.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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These sort of product celebrations (with users providing feedback on what the product means to them) are fantastic. As a user it's great to be able to see what a product means to others too and how they're using it. We had a similar page for a website we run and reading user feedback is so much fun, companies should do this sort of thing more often.

Trello only reached 500,000 users in July of this year, that's some spectacular growth: http://blog.trello.com/trello-is-now-500000-strong/

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Great service. I hope they start charging for the service soon.

From your perspective, why? AFAIK, it's not like it's a social network where you get an increase in value with the filtering charging brings.

My major concern here is the speed of the service, maybe by bringing in some cash they will feel more accountable to their users for speed.

Re: Trello celebrates One Million Users

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Great service. I hope they start charging for the service soon.

Charging for premium features - Sure. But the basic version will remain free according to the Trello Guide.

Free... for how long?

Trello is free forever. We may add pay-only features in the future, but everything that's free today will be free tomorrow and forever. Also, we'll not make a for-pay feature that forces you to compromise on privacy, security, or portability. Those are built-in. [...] Trello is free.

https://trello.com/guide

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