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Re: Linear.app

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Post by atonse »

metadat wrote: post #2

For a small team, I can say Linear beats the hell out of JIRA. I sure don't miss the 30+ second page loads, slow pagelads, slow saves, slow edit button, confusing comments section, and accidental random ticket body erasure when working with a heavily loaded JIRA instance.

I am seeing multiple references here to 30 second long page loads.

What is causing your JIRA projects to take that long? Too many custom fields? Large numbers of issues? Too many plugins? Really curious because most of our issues are sub-second.

Re: Linear.app

#102

Post by xctr94 »

enra wrote: post #7

Karri (cofounder) from Linear here. Unfortunately we have been experiencing a DDoS attack the whole afternoon today, so the service is not optimal at the moment and the public website might be slow to load. We are actively blocking and mitigating the attack. https://linearstatus.com Sidenote: While we had these issues, we decided to redirect our homepage to our website Figma file, where we shared iterations for the d…

Good luck Karri!

I am so glad that I picked Linear for my startup. You folks have been consistently responsive, helpful, and keep delivering features that matter. It’s been a delight after a decade of Jira and the gang.

Re: Linear.app

#103

Post by xctr94 »

_answ wrote: post #92

I have used Linear on a couple of my hobby projects and it's a great tool to quickly capture features and bugs. My one gripe about the new website (and it's something I notice many projects stumble at) is that the written copy fails to explain what the product actually is . "A better way to build products", "the new standard for software development", "a tool to remove barriers" -- this tells me nothing, unlike a sim…

Possibly the marketing gang writing copy about ‘benefits’ instead of features? It’s supposed to help drive conversion.

Re: Linear.app

#104

Post by omniscient_oce »

I use it for my personal projects and really like it because of how quick and responsive it is plus the overall design aesthetic is pleasing to me. At the end of the day though it's an issue tracker and there are quite a few out there. Of the ones I've tried Linear is the best so I hope that they keep improving their product without bloating it too much. That's what I'm worried about most.

Re: Linear.app

#105

Post by pqs »

kevinma wrote: post #57
nathan_f77 wrote: post #19

This seems like a really nice tool. I'm quite happy with some of the "older" tools I'm still using: Shortcut for project management at my company, Trello for personal todo lists, and Evernote for notes. Trying to stick to the philosophy of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" when it comes to all these new tools and services. I think Shortcut and Trello are still great tools and I'm not in a hurry to replace them. But L…

Evernote is a classic example of destroying an app by using Electron.

I'm using it every day. I have analyzed all alternatives and all of them fail with something, especialy since the Tasks feature was introduced. So, no, it has not been destroyed. I has been tough, but I think a lot of people use it and are happy with it.

Re: Linear.app

#106

Post by Aicy »

_answ wrote: post #92

I have used Linear on a couple of my hobby projects and it's a great tool to quickly capture features and bugs. My one gripe about the new website (and it's something I notice many projects stumble at) is that the written copy fails to explain what the product actually is . "A better way to build products", "the new standard for software development", "a tool to remove barriers" -- this tells me nothing, unlike a sim…

I thought the fact that it was an issue tracker was self evident from the first picture on the page.

Show don't tell!

Re: Linear.app

#107

Post by _answ »

Aicy wrote: post #106
_answ wrote: post #92

I have used Linear on a couple of my hobby projects and it's a great tool to quickly capture features and bugs. My one gripe about the new website (and it's something I notice many projects stumble at) is that the written copy fails to explain what the product actually is . "A better way to build products", "the new standard for software development", "a tool to remove barriers" -- this tells me nothing, unlike a sim…

I thought the fact that it was an issue tracker was self evident from the first picture on the page. Show don't tell!

I'm sure the visually impaired users appreciate that a lot.

"Show, don't tell" is good advice for creative writing, which this website isn't. As a potential customer, it shouldn't be my job to cut through the marketing fluff to figure out if a product is something that is relevant to me.

This buzzword-driven style of writing, which has infected many a software project in recent years, is a pure triumph of form over function. Maybe it is necessary to appeal to the CTO types of the industry, but as a simple developer I do find it confusing and frankly repulsive.

Re: Linear.app

#108

Post by rvieira »

Linear is nice looking app and I the workflow is well thought out.

Unfortunately I stopped using due to the lack of robust offline features (this might have improved meanwhile).

Re: Linear.app

#109

Post by duckmysick »

vebra wrote: post #98

I've tried it recently, since it markets itself as being performant, and native-like performance is what other popular tools like Jira or Trello miss. I want to say upfront that 50ms user interactions is not what I would consider "breathtakingly fast" as the website claims. It's much better than the tools mentioned above, but doesn't really cut it for me. Maybe I'm old, but I see lots of unnecessary animations, that…

> P.S. Can someone please explain the hate for the pointer cursor? Why some products refuse to use it for links and buttons?

It's not some, it's most. I just checked my Linux and Windows machines and all of the native apps (and the native UI of the system itself) there have a regular cursor when you hover over clickable elements.

Re: Linear.app

#110

Post by alpaca128 »

tflinton wrote: post #37
julianlam wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a ticketing system whose killer feature is that practically everything is a keyboard shortcut. It's pretty neat and let's you really get in the flow of things.

I’m not sure how keyboard shortcuts is a killer feature.

They shouldn't be a noteworthy feature, but unfortunately we're at a point where even basic browser functionality like tabs and scrolling may break in some web UIs.
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