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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by Siecje »

pretzel wrote: post #105
akjainaj wrote: post #63

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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.

There are a few new features over the last 5 years... * Merge checks * Build status (finally...) * Audit logs * Inline editing From: https://bitbucket.org/whats-new Nothing that keeps it above Github, but they always seem to maintain feature parity. /not a bitbucket shill //just don't like inaccurate comments.

Also Pipelines which is like Travis CI built into Bitbucket.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by misterbowfinger »

nathancahill wrote: post #222
misterbowfinger wrote: post #221

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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...

Yup. Having "Free, forever" on its own seems a lot less binding.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by weberc2 »

rb808 wrote: post #82
bhouston wrote: post #6

This makes sense. Atlassian is good at making money from its services and it is increasing its overall ecosystem here. Github moves really slow in comparison. I guess Github is more focused, but there are a lot of contrasts between Github and Atlassian, and in terms of making money I think Atlassian is doing a lot better. Has Github acquired anything significant? Github should have acquired Zenhub (which is Trello in…

It makes sense mainly because Trello is a competitor to Atlassian and its best to kill it now before it takes too much market share. edit: Yes right now there might not be an exact competitor but in a few years it could easily match everything Jira does.

This is too bad, because Trello is much nicer than JIRA for everything I care about...

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by SonOfLilit »

Open letter to Atlassian:

Trello are an amazing team and an amazing product, and what makes the product so amazing is how domain-agnostic it is. They refuse at all costs to add any feature that helps use Trello in one specific way over others (e.g. lists = stages in task lifetime, cards = tasks; lists = assigned people, cards = tasks; lists = dates, cards = events, ...), and that made Trello equally useful as a Kanban board, a CRM, or for a beer microbrewery tracking its different barrels and the stages of brewing they are at. The best thing about Trello is when you start organizing your board one way, then organically drift towards a more natural way to organize them, sometimes without noticing as you do. Trello is for processes that you're not sure yet about the right way to manage.

Atlassian is all about development team collaboration. Trello can be used for that, but not anymore than it can be used for brewing beer. Trello shines when you don't know in advance how you will want to manage a project. If Trello became a dev collaboratin tool, I would stop using it for dev collaboration because there are better specialized solutions for that. Keep Trello general. Please.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by Siecje »

orbitur wrote: post #249
pc86 wrote: post #208

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Why do that if you could just use hg?

Because everyone else is still using git.

There is a Mercurial extension that allows you to use hg commands to interact with a git repo

https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by BjoernKW »

k__ wrote: post #50
BjoernKW wrote: post #35

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Atlassian doesn't have a reputation for shutting down services they've acquired.

Right, but they don't have a good reputation to start with. Somehow the only good things I heared about them came from people who made their money by building stuff they wanted to sell on the Atlassian platform. People less biased always choose alternatives. I can't say much about them myself. I only used Bitbucket, because of the free private repos. Their UIs are pretty mediocre, but I use it via Git cli, so it does…

As far as ticket / issue tracking systems and wikis go their products are quite decent.

JIRA has its quirks but it's very flexible and customisable. Its UX is also quite ok for such a complex piece of software. Keep in mind they're competing with stuff like SharePoint and downright UX atrocities such as HP ALM.

Confluence is among the best enterprise wikis targeting end users (i.e. users not familiar with Markdown), too.

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Post by quicksilver03 »

kevando wrote: post #47

Can we all start using Trello clones as the tutorial substance? So in case Atlassian screws it up, we have 100s of developers that know how to re-create it? :D

I've used http://lavagna.io for a while on my own servers, but recently I've started using and enjoying https://www.favro.com whose free version has less limitations than the free Trello version.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by [deleted] »

egeozcan wrote: post #201
zippergz wrote: post #188

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I don't disagree with this, but very small teams (or sometimes just myself) is exactly what I use Trello for. We use it at home for shared to-do lists, idea boards (way better than Pinterest for us), etc. I realize this doesn't make them much money, but I hope they don't ruin that use case because I haven't found anything I like as well.

Not everyone wants to maintain their own private server, but if you do have one, give wekan a try. I found it to be a good open-source replacement. https://wekan.io/

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by rileymat2 »

pketh wrote: post #232
rileymat2 wrote: post #132

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It is kind of a shame, I found the way the filters on Fogbugz to be a pretty interesting interface.

I work at fogcreek, and fogbugz is definitely not going anywhere :)

Oh, I did not mean that. It is a shame it did not "win". There were other design choices I did not like, but I loved the way the filter worked.
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