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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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I'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.

They used to have a blurb on their pricing page that said Trello will always have a free option. It's curiously not there anymore:

https://trello.com/pricing

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#222

I'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.

They used to have a blurb on their pricing page that said Trello will always have a free option. It's curiously not there anymore: https://trello.com/pricing

It says "Free, forever."

Edit: I guess you mean these three blurbs? http://web.archive.org/web/20160505012250/https://trello.com...

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Congrats to Trello and Fog Creek Software! I've moved on to Zenhub instead of Trello, but it's indeed a really nice product that can be used by many, and not just people in software development

ZenHub is nice but it's also overwhelming with information that's not pertinent or contextual.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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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.

> Jira is the least-worst option for running a project at any team size. If anyone here has ever been confused by the expression "damning with faint praise", I hope this is an illustrative example.

No it's really not. "Damning with faint praise" is when, say, you've just effusively praised something else, and then say that the alternative is pretty good.

The "least-worst option" means it's not good, but all the alternatives are terrible. That's not damning.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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They will JIRA-fy it or kill it. I use JIRA and pay for it, it is hell on earth for teams of 2-5. We looked into switching to trello to reduce overhead but... It cost more for less features. So we stayed with JIRA. They will kill trello so everyone is stuck with JIRA. Someone please make a trello clone with reasonable pricing, now!

Trello was ridiculously cheap. I think you're totally out of luck if you expect anybody to make a clone that's cheaper.

$10/user/mo for Trello seems pretty expensive to me. It's a very basic product.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#226
Sounds like a move to capture the lower bound of the market. Right now, lots of teams leave Trello to something more robust like JIRA after crossing somewhere between 5-10 people, but with this, they're on Atlassian from the beginning. I also think the JIRA team could use some UX help from Trello :P

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#227
I am really glad I never started using Trello for my task organization. It lacked the basic act of marking tasks as Done. I needed to manually drag the done tasks to a 'Done' board.

On that note, my hunt for good task organization app led me to Todoist! It's awesome! It has great web and Android apps and great API which I intend to hack at some point to create an emacs interface for it.

So glad that Todoist wasn't bought by Atlassian. My biggest gripe with Atlassian is that it natively doesn't support Markdown in Jira. It uses its funky own markup that's really bad.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#228
Microsoft Planner was released as a free add-on to Office 365 at the backend of last year, which seems to be a direct "good enough" competitor to Trello's business & enterprise plans. Wonder if that was a factor in the sale?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trello was ridiculously cheap. I think you're totally out of luck if you expect anybody to make a clone that's cheaper.

$10/user/mo for Trello seems pretty expensive to me. It's a very basic product.

They don't care about selling it to you though when they can sell it to the IBMs. To be fair we probably own licenses to everything. I know we have used github enterprise on the watson side.
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