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Introducing Trello Gold

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Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by swanson »

Two points on why stickers are a sneaky-good feature IMO

1) Trello is used by some as a digital Kanban board. A bit thing is Kanban is the idea of a "blocker" - on physical boards this is usually a big, in-your-face, bright red sticky note. The point is that it jumps out at you and gets the team to swarm in and address the issue. Trello didn't really have this before (yes, you could use labels but it wasn't obvious). Now you can slap a big WARNING sticker on the thing and people will notice.

2) Trello has been trying to move away from being strictly a tool for software developers. Look at the marketing home page - the example board is for an Art Project, not a software app. With people using Trello to plan weddings [1] or to help their kids with homework [2], they are aiming for a different market than techies. Ever have a chore list when you were a kid? And what did mom put on it when you did your chores and earned a reward? Yup, a sticker. Brilliant move if you ask me.

[1]: http://www.22ideastreet.com/blog/2013/09/12/the-tech-behind-...

[2]: http://heartofwisdom.com/blog/get-organized-with-trello-list...

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by bgertonson »

It looks like this basically gives you the ability to customize the look for yourself. And add some custom things (stickers and emoji) will be visible by others, but not usable. Thankfully, it looks like a basic sticker set is available for free. While maybe tacky, I can see stickers being used to indicate things that labels are used for now, but they will be more obvious. Labels are a small color bar on the front of the card. Remembering what they mean can sometimes be difficult. Getting attention via a sticker is probably more obvious. But can we filter by stickers? Probably not.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by bgertonson »

davidjgraph wrote: post #2

Well, this is awkward. Take a tool where I'd define two of its key points as being clean and simple (to look at and use), then charge money to add two fairly random features that mess up the look.

Board backgrounds could be useful if you have a lot of boards. Otherwise, it shouldn't be awkward at all, unless you want to give them money and are disappointed they didn't give you a reason to.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by quadrangle »

LeafStorm wrote: post #8

Meanwhile, I'm completely on board with this. Trello is used by a lot of people who make lots of money and want to throw some of it at Fog Creek because they're awesome, but it's also used by a lot of people who make not lots of money (in some cases zero money) and are organizing things like school projects and community service. (For example, I use Trello to organize all my homework, and a club I'm part of at school…

While your thinking here makes sense, it is better to honor truly Free as in freedom / Libre / Open Source software instead of funding proprietary software. FLOSS is also made by hard-working people and given away mostly and used by people who make money. But if you support FLOSS, your support goes to help everyone in the world, whereas if you fund proprietary software, you help advance something still under exclusive control by the company and not respecting everyone's freedoms.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by jenius »

chao- wrote: post #12

After finally being convinced that this isn't a joke, I had a horrible revelation: If Trello came with all of that by default, I would pay just as much to make it go away.

Has it been confirmed that this isn't a joke?

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by dpcan »

LeafStorm wrote: post #8

Meanwhile, I'm completely on board with this. Trello is used by a lot of people who make lots of money and want to throw some of it at Fog Creek because they're awesome, but it's also used by a lot of people who make not lots of money (in some cases zero money) and are organizing things like school projects and community service. (For example, I use Trello to organize all my homework, and a club I'm part of at school…

I upgraded the instant I saw it for 2 reasons:

1) I've been wanting a way to PAY for this service for a long time now so I know it's there year after year. I'm super happy to give them $5 per month.

2) I wanted pretty backgrounds.

I am what I am.

Re: Introducing Trello Gold

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Post by yogo »

avenger123 wrote: post #7
davidjgraph wrote: post #2

Well, this is awkward. Take a tool where I'd define two of its key points as being clean and simple (to look at and use), then charge money to add two fairly random features that mess up the look.

Everyone likes to bring out their individuality. I can definitely see a lot of users happily uploading personal pictures for board backgrounds.

Like MySpace? I think people should let their tools look the way the want it to, but it always goes downhill from there. It's one of those things where it's better to just keep it simple and standard looking.
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