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Plane – Open-source Jira alternative

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Re: Plane – Open-source Jira alternative

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My opinion based on feature and screenshots is that the UX is as shitty as Jira. The nightmare with Jira is this product manager obsession with kaban boards that become overwhelmed once your project become serious.

This totally expected level of unconstructive critique makes this comment a miniature art piece.

Snark all you want, but that's this person's experience and it's worth considering why that is the case. I'd wager they've been a victim of productivity theatre, with management saying "we need to be agile! make it so everyone -- your job depends on it!". Then, they may even hire an experienced agile manager but (for whatever reason) give them no chance to spend time and effort properly training everyone involved in how to work differently and to use the tools effectively, and how to communicate the "burn-down rate" to the users every time-period so that their expectations may be set correctly. Combine this with the attitude of many "I'll raise it as a ticket, then I'll have something official with which to chase the developers", and it's perhaps easier to see how things can become chaotic.

Perhaps you've been fortunate enough to be employed where these things are managed better than my hypothetical scenario above, but my experience that is the exception, not the rule, so it's not surprising that people can become fatigued.

Re: Plane – Open-source Jira alternative

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post #7

My opinion based on feature and screenshots is that the UX is as shitty as Jira. The nightmare with Jira is this product manager obsession with kaban boards that become overwhelmed once your project become serious.

Alright, I am not denying you might be right, but it sounds like an old man yelling at cloud. If not Kanban, what else would you propose as the 'better' solution

Re: Plane – Open-source Jira alternative

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a user, that's the best for a software like this, because it means it cannot be ever closed source!

> cannot be ever closed source Cannot be closed source unless the maintainer dual licenses and stops making OS (assuming a single maintainer or group that all agree, or that other contributors have signed a relevant copyright waiver). (though what has already been released can't be retracted)

> (though what has already been released can't be retracted)

This is the only relevant bit. A license can't force people to do work for free in the future.

Re: Plane – Open-source Jira alternative

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Thank you for posting this. Looks pretty basic but somehow complete. The first impression is good. Here's some criticism: The first thing I look for in a issue tracker is the screen estate to write the task. I understand that some people write a list of issues in the form of short blurbs and iterate on them afterwards, but it always feels frustrating to me to having to write the title in a modal window, save and then…

> On my computer it started in Dark Mode, and the experience overall was quite a bit disorientating. Also no light/mode switch icon in the header.

I don't really know that you need a light/dark mode switch. It should follow your preferences. I see dark mode websites all the time, because my desktop is set to dark mode. On my Windows machine I see the same websites with the light-mode, because I did not bother to figure out how to set Windows to dark-mode.

[EDIT: The Plane App ignores my preferences].

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