This saddens me, and I suspect the future Trello will be a much different animal from what it is today. It could be better, but my gut says not.
I'm optimistic in that there may finally be a self-hosted version of Trello.
*optimistic
Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#132So Fog Creek - makers of Fogbugz, which lost out bigtime to JIRA - have now sold Trello to Atlassian? Is there nothing left of Fogbugz?
It is kind of a shame, I found the way the filters on Fogbugz to be a pretty interesting interface.
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#133So Fog Creek - makers of Fogbugz, which lost out bigtime to JIRA - have now sold Trello to Atlassian? Is there nothing left of Fogbugz?
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#134Oh god... Let's hope they don't spoil it. I just made a paid subscription...
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imo, GitLab is a more worthy competitor than BitBucket.
I agree with you, to me it looks like BitBucket hasn't evolved at all in five years. The only change worth mentioning is that they made me transition to an "Atlassian account", which was as annoying as when Flickr made me create a Yahoo account.
I very much doubt big enterprise clients use the services at bitbucket.com. Standalone is where it is at, and BitBucket (previously Stash) is a worthy competitor to GitLab (which was pain to setup just few years back). Big companies usually don't move at the speed of javascript frameworks.
Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#137Not related at all but I interviewed for Trello in 2016, the meeting was super cool (video call in the browser, nice RH girl apparently very excited about my profile), the job was full remote, they needed help to move from Backbone to React and they have millions of users (!) so I was quite hyped. Then I received an email of refusal from another guy containing only a quote from the CEO. I asked for feedback (probably my spoken english was not good enough but I wanted a confirmation) and the guy replied me that he couldn't say anything for legal reasons... and the same quote from the CEO. Cold shower experience.
About the topic: we used JIRA in my last job and it was not that bad. Curious to see what they are going to do with Trello.
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#138I'm a big fan of Trello but I dread using Atlassian products. I do not have a good feeling about this. Hopefully Atlassian can learn from what makes Trello so wonderful instead of JIRA-ifying it into oblivion.
Funny how much opinions can differ. I've used them both professionally and I think Trello scales poorly above 5-10 people while Jira is the least-worst option for running a project at any team size.
Yeah, I agree. I've worked with many alternatives but JIRA shines compared to the competition, especially at managing agile workflows.
Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#139Is Slack next? Could they afford that?
I don't think anyone other than Facebook/Microsoft/Apple/Google can afford Slack.
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#140Some of Atlassian's previous acquisitions have turned into products mostly shunned by the developer community (Hipchat, Bitbucket) - I hope they've learned what went wrong since then, but my gut says Atlassian isn't very good at integrating external teams and supporting their products. Hopefully Trello won't go down the same path.
They are hardly shunned, just not preferred. Besides, I don't think Atlassian is interested in competing for heavy users that don't pay anything. They are pretty content with the enterprise IT market.