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Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform

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Re: Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform

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Post by jamesfzhang »

rogerbinns wrote: post #12

My biggest beef with Trello is lack of multiple account support. For example if you use it in your home life (as their blog greatly encourages), and also want it for work (as their business model greatly encourages) then you'll want distinct accounts. Without distinct accounts, you get a mixing of the data, permissions, where it is accessed from, notifications, email sent by them, makes board admin harder etc. While…

If I'm not mistaken, Dropbox has had multiple account support for some time (about a year?).

Re: Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform

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Post by rogerbinns »

jacquesm wrote: post #15
rogerbinns wrote: post #12

My biggest beef with Trello is lack of multiple account support. For example if you use it in your home life (as their blog greatly encourages), and also want it for work (as their business model greatly encourages) then you'll want distinct accounts. Without distinct accounts, you get a mixing of the data, permissions, where it is accessed from, notifications, email sent by them, makes board admin harder etc. While…

> Google has shown for years how to get multiple accounts right. I really hope that was a joke on your part. If there is one thing that was irritating it was how google would mix up and connect various accounts at random for no particular reason.

My wording was poor, and Google certainly don't get them perfect. It does fundamentally work though - you can connect multiple users in web and mobile apps and switch between them as you see fit. Sometimes it does select the wrong account for whatever you were trying do (calendar used to do this a lot), but you can usually just switch to the correct account.

My main frustration is services that don't even get close to Google's implementation and user experience for multiple accounts, despite it serving as an example for many years. Like Trello, most seem to not even bother, while others like Dropbox seemed to do the worst combination of things possible.

Re: Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform

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Post by smt88 »

mhp wrote: post #9
flardinois wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I asked them about that ( http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/19/trello-launches-developer-p... ). Those are total signups, not active users. They are not disclosing monthly actives.

It's not really a secret: https://www.quantcast.com/trello.com

Yes it is. Some users will only ever use the mobile app. I don't know anyone on my teams except myself who log in on the web.

Re: Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform

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Post by bluedino »

smt88 wrote: post #3

I'm genuinely surprised at how tiny Trello is. I guess if enough of your users are paying and your overhead is low, it really doesn't matter.

Are there ads on Trello? Look at something like Stack Exchange where half the employees are sales/marketing:

http://stackexchange.com/about/team

Re: Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform

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Post by rogerbinns »

jamesfzhang wrote: post #21
rogerbinns wrote: post #12

My biggest beef with Trello is lack of multiple account support. For example if you use it in your home life (as their blog greatly encourages), and also want it for work (as their business model greatly encourages) then you'll want distinct accounts. Without distinct accounts, you get a mixing of the data, permissions, where it is accessed from, notifications, email sent by them, makes board admin harder etc. While…

If I'm not mistaken, Dropbox has had multiple account support for some time (about a year?).

That made me burst out in laughter. It has been longer than a year, and they made a huge mess of it. Essentially you can do a pseudo-merge of exactly one personal account into exactly one business account, that is then the beginning of all sorts of glitches and problems. That includes things like removing that personal user from the business account deleting all their personal content, being unable to separate the folders, logging into either account giving access to the other account, difficulty administering the accounts separately (a colleague had to call them up just to figure out how to update a credit card number and delete a user because he had both paid personal and business account psuedo-merged).

Re: Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform

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Post by sideproject »

mhp wrote: post #8

Awesome that this hit front page. Thanks! But I think the more interesting link for the HN crowd is this one: How to build a Trello powerup: https://developers.trello.com/power-ups/samples Sample github repo: https://github.com/trello/power-up-template

what about trello tech stack? that's quite interesting for HNers too!

http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/

but that post is about 3 years old, so I wonder how they changed over the years....

Re: Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform

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Post by dabernathy89 »

I've always wanted to like Trello, but i'm never sure quite how or what to use it for. It doesn't work well for me for project management, since you can't create tasks with due dates or assignees. I'm not sure how folks get around that.

edit: I was thinking of checklists, not cards.

Re: Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform

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Post by hk__2 »

dabernathy89 wrote: post #28

I've always wanted to like Trello, but i'm never sure quite how or what to use it for. It doesn't work well for me for project management, since you can't create tasks with due dates or assignees. I'm not sure how folks get around that. edit: I was thinking of checklists, not cards.

> since you can't create tasks with due dates or assignees.

You can do both.

Re: Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform

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Post by hk__2 »

jimmaswell wrote: post #20
rogerbinns wrote: post #12

My biggest beef with Trello is lack of multiple account support. For example if you use it in your home life (as their blog greatly encourages), and also want it for work (as their business model greatly encourages) then you'll want distinct accounts. Without distinct accounts, you get a mixing of the data, permissions, where it is accessed from, notifications, email sent by them, makes board admin harder etc. While…

On Firefox mobile you can have one account logged in in normal tabs and another in private tabs.

On other browsers too but that’s hacky.
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