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Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

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Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

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post #109

I don't like this, it's telling me to go upgrade my browser as punishment for having the wrong user agent. When I'm trying to have privacy. My agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 I'm using 6.0.2 browser, however. It's a pretty common user agent: https://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php Eff does not provide the most common user agents list so I have no idea wha…

This product was designed to do a really good job helping people that have to get things done. Like any other software project, they must have had thousands of issues and limited resources to fix them, so they had to triage. With all due respect, the kinds of users that spoof their user agent to protect their privacy is probably fairly low on their priority list.

Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

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This looks really cool. I'm excited to try it out, individually and with others.

Even better that you can immediately sign up and give it a try. As opposed to Asana, which has similar intentions, but is doing a private beta with larger companies only. Yes, Trello is much easier to get excited about.

EDIT

Some feedback: so far I really like it. It's intuitive. And it has some nice features out of the box that are lacking in other products such as assignment and voting. Assignment allows central authorities to exist, as well as hand-offs between people. Voting is awesome. I immediately see two uses for this: democratizing, and to allow collaborators to vote on what they want to do. The latter being something I've always personally wanted in a collaboration tool. Combining that with a central authority can be very powerful by allowing people to voice their interests, yet keep the project moving and avoid conflict.

As for the initial reaction: some of the views are pretty intimidating. Even thought there's only three lists at the start, it is still a little much to begin with. A lot to take in. If you ever implement a "minimize list" feature, that could easily reduce the noise for a beginner while still allowing you to explore all the features when you're ready to.

The edit screen has a lot happening in it too, but I think that's less of a problem since it's only visible when actually editing cards and you'll soon be using everything in there.

Also, I'm sure it's already in the works, but keyboard navigation will be huge for upcoming power users. Right now Vimium provides that for me, but it'd be great to have it built in.

It looks very useful! I'm already having fun with it and I'll try it out on an upcoming collaboration. Is there going to be a UserVoice (or similar) site anywhere for additional feedback? I'll happily leave this and other feedback there.

Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

#114
post #109

I don't like this, it's telling me to go upgrade my browser as punishment for having the wrong user agent. When I'm trying to have privacy. My agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 I'm using 6.0.2 browser, however. It's a pretty common user agent: https://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php Eff does not provide the most common user agents list so I have no idea wha…

This product was designed to do a really good job helping people that have to get things done. Like any other software project, they must have had thousands of issues and limited resources to fix them, so they had to triage. With all due respect, the kinds of users that spoof their user agent to protect their privacy is probably fairly low on their priority list.

"Thousands of issues and limited resources to fix them"? They seem to have the resources to make it by design to block such user agents rather than advising users to upgrade.

Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

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Played around for a few minutes.. I didn't see a quick way to filter the view to only the non-archived cards that you (or any other single person) are a member of. If you start to build up tons of boards/cards, is there a way to quickly filter the view like this?

Press q.

Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

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post #104

It definitely has all the trappings of a Fog Creek app: - The overall UI: built by programmers who dabble in design - A seven(!) minute video about how _simple_ it is to use. It's easy! Instead of just raising your hand, you mark a light on the corresponding tote board, which informs your manager that you need more information. I hate to be contrarian, but there are many other apps out there that solve this problem m…

OK, but can you give us some specific improvements you'd make? Or parts of the design that you'd change?
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