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

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Post by moultano »

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…

Chrome profiles are the right tool for this. Just have a separate profile for work and for home. This has the added benefit of making it easy to stay logged out of time-wasting sites while at work.

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

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Post by mhp »

bluedino wrote: post #24
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

Nope. No ads.

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

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Post by mhp »

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.

Our vision is that it gives a group of people a shared perspective. It puts you on the same page. That could be your fiancé and your mother-in-law planning your wedding or it could be your HR team trying to structure your employee onboarding process.

It's not a project management tool anymore than it is a bug tracker or a crm or an applicant tracking system. People use Trello for all of those things but at its core, it is just a list of lists.

The power comes from understanding how that metaphor can help provide structure to some process that you have. (Trello comes from "trellis" - a structure to help plants grow).

Check out trello.com/inspiration for some examples. It's a bit like explaining to someone what a spreadsheet is before they have seen one and why they would use one. Once you grok it, it's very powerful.

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

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Post by adriand »

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…

I love Trello and use it all the time, but since we're beefing about it, I've got two main issues to share:

1. The search is awful. I won't really elaborate on this except to say it's often really hard to find stuff and if they did some UX research on this I think it could be much improved.

2. I intentionally avoid opening the notifications pane except in certain moments because opening it clears the "read" status of the notifications therein. This is an issue, because I haven't necessarily read or dealt with the notification. Therefore, I only open the notifications pane when I'm in a spot where I can feasibly deal with or record every single important notification that it's going to show me, otherwise, there's the risk that the notification will go unread (in the true, real-life sense) and thus be missed entirely.

All that said, bravo Trello, you're a great product.

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

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Post by lobster_johnson »

rogerbinns wrote: post #22
jacquesm wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 t…

I would argue that Google's account system is extremely poor.

What it considers your primary account is apparently the first one you add, so if the order is wrong, you have to sign out of all of them and start over [1].

But it's not exactly like that. Recently someone added me to a new Google Apps for Work (or whatever it's called this month) account, and now this new account is, mysteriously, the default account, even though I've had a different one for ages.

If you open Google Calendar, it will embed the account number in the URL (https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/3/render, for example), but this number obviously isn't static. If you have multiple devices and sign in elsewhere, the number might be wrong.

You also get this number as "?authuser=3" in every Google Hangout URL. But that number is yours — when people share a link like this, the recipient typically ends up opening GH for the wrong account. Google Hangouts is notoriously finicky about accounts, and the loading screen will often hang if you happen to be using the wrong one for a particular hangout ID. Sometimes GH shows the (tiny, dark gray) account switching link, sometimes not. (Hangouts is generally a disaster when it comes to actually starting one.)

[1] http://osxdaily.com/2014/08/13/set-default-google-account-mu...

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

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Post by erikpukinskis »

hobs wrote: post #19
ThrustVectoring wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google doesn't get multiple accounts exactly right across app boundaries. For example, the links to view a Google Groups discussion is completely broken when you're in gmail on a non-primary account (it attempts to load the link with your primary account, which won't have access, and switching to your secondary account drops the link to the group).

Dont try to separate your youtube and gmail account, I have created 6 google+ pages overall and I lost all my playlists and watch history for years, but now I can comment on a video on youtube!

I entirely lost access to a YouTube account with videos totalling several million views because I apparently pressed a wrong button during that transition.

Nothing to be done though. Google is a big fish.

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

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Post by hobs »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #46
hobs wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dont try to separate your youtube and gmail account, I have created 6 google+ pages overall and I lost all my playlists and watch history for years, but now I can comment on a video on youtube!

I entirely lost access to a YouTube account with videos totalling several million views because I apparently pressed a wrong button during that transition. Nothing to be done though. Google is a big fish.

:(, yeah. I had a friend who even talked to the youtube team about it, didnt have much hope.

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

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Post by jay_kyburz »

hk__2 wrote: post #30
jimmaswell wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't really think it's hacky. For many years I would run 2 browsers side by side. Firefox for personal and Chrome for Business.

It makes a nice separation and you don't need to worry about whether some tool you like to use has fancy multiple account tech. If the big guys like Google and Facebook can't get it right, I think it's unreasonable to expect smaller players to do better.

You never need to think about who your are logged in as or who you are posting as.

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

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Post by thedufer »

adriand wrote: post #44
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…

I love Trello and use it all the time, but since we're beefing about it, I've got two main issues to share: 1. The search is awful. I won't really elaborate on this except to say it's often really hard to find stuff and if they did some UX research on this I think it could be much improved. 2. I intentionally avoid opening the notifications pane except in certain moments because opening it clears the "read" status of…

My solution for point 2 is to refresh the page (assuming you're in the web version) before closing the notifications pane. It doesn't actually clear them until you close it, so this hackily works around the issue.

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

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Post by madeofpalk »

moultano wrote: post #41
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…

Chrome profiles are the right tool for this. Just have a separate profile for work and for home. This has the added benefit of making it easy to stay logged out of time-wasting sites while at work.

Speaking of time-wasting sites, Google and Slack have managed to get an at least passable support of multiple accounts working.

I understand it's difficult to do, but if you're a service that encourages it's use across work and personal life, you eventually need a way to manage people separating that.

Perhaps they can have the concept of you always have a personal account, and you get /invited/ into an organisation? As apposed to Google's approach of having seperate, distinct accounts and you can 'easily' switch between them.

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