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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by photogrammetry »

hoodoof wrote: post #488
deepuj wrote: post #322

This is depressing. Trello is a beloved software for a lot of people. It's sad that Trello decided to sell off to Atlassian. I can't believe the same company that makes Jira is going to run Trello. SourceTree is the only software that they make that doesn't suck.

What about celebrating this as a success? All these negative comments and hand wringing about Trello being ruined sounds like whining entitlement. Atlassian is a fabulously successful independently run company that you should be happy bought Trello. For goodness sake all you haters in this thread make it sound like Trello was acquired by Trump Corporation or The Empire or something.

But, how are posters on HN supposed to get upvotes if they don't say something alarming/negative? Positive comments are explicitly discouraged in the "community guidelines." Perhaps we should consider whether sama or pg had a greater influence on that.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by sb8244 »

rsp1984 wrote: post #446
deepuj wrote: post #322

This is depressing. Trello is a beloved software for a lot of people. It's sad that Trello decided to sell off to Atlassian. I can't believe the same company that makes Jira is going to run Trello. SourceTree is the only software that they make that doesn't suck.

SourceTree is the only software that they make that doesn't suck. If you compare SourceTree to other halfway modern git clients (like Tower or GitX-dev), oh boy does it suck! The layout is completely disorganized, the diffing is super lousy. It's slow. It sucks up lots of memory. It's literally the last GUI client I'd use before just going to the command line.

I switched to SourceTree after GitX (not dev but another fork) kept crashing. I haven't looked back. It's a great client and I haven't had any problems with it. I'm working on decently sized repos but keep a pretty clean flow.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by cheerioty »

rplnt wrote: post #136
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.

I very much doubt big enterprise clients use the services at bitbucket.com. Standalone is where it is at, and BitBucket (previously Stash) is a worthy competitor to GitLab (which was pain to setup just few years back). Big companies usually don't move at the speed of javascript frameworks.

"Big companies usually don't move at the speed of javascript frameworks"

Well ;) https://twitter.com/sreuter/status/818614016801009664 ...

Disclaimer: I work at Atlassian.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by thewhitetulip »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #390
mhp wrote: post #366

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The Trellists made Trello. And the Trellists are going to keep working on Trello at Atlassian. Atlassian understands that Trello is unique and beloved and they definitely do not want to mess that up. Read this article that Jordan Novet wrote. I know seeing is believing and you will have to wait and see, but I agree with everything Jay Simons says in this interview. "During the interview, Simons took time to assure me…

To be fair I've been a part of 3 acquisitions and have seen this story play out tens of times with beloved software. It always starts out this way. "The original folks are going to run it, not the new company!" "Things will stay the same" yadda yadda yadda. 1-3 years down the road, it'll be a different story. It'll be unlikely that the executive team will stick around past whatever agreement they signed with Atlassia…

I've not been a part of acquisition but I've seen many from the outside, take the exame of Whatsapp, when they sold off to facebook they were like "we will never add calling to whatsapp, it will always focus on text messaging", " we care for privacy very much, never will we send your data" et al, less than one year after the acquisition, they do everything that they had promised not to do!

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by techcofounder »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #390
mhp wrote: post #366

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Trellists made Trello. And the Trellists are going to keep working on Trello at Atlassian. Atlassian understands that Trello is unique and beloved and they definitely do not want to mess that up. Read this article that Jordan Novet wrote. I know seeing is believing and you will have to wait and see, but I agree with everything Jay Simons says in this interview. "During the interview, Simons took time to assure me…

To be fair I've been a part of 3 acquisitions and have seen this story play out tens of times with beloved software. It always starts out this way. "The original folks are going to run it, not the new company!" "Things will stay the same" yadda yadda yadda. 1-3 years down the road, it'll be a different story. It'll be unlikely that the executive team will stick around past whatever agreement they signed with Atlassia…

Zappos is a good example of an acquisition that maintained its original culture.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by dukedougal »

dukedougal wrote: post #505
farkas wrote: post #410

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We have no plans to sunset Trello. Trello is an incredible product, and an incredible brand, with an amazing team behind it. Atlassian's product range today includes unstructured (Confluence) and structured (JIRA) products. Trello fits right in the middle. It has a myriad of use-cases[1] and is loved by the millions who use it daily. [1] - https://trello.com/inspiration Scott, CEO Atlassian

@farkas I know this is off topic - but whilst you are here can I ask you a question? If we have built a product that is a (we think) great fit to the Atlassian customer base, who would we speak to in order to create a partnering arrangement with Atlassian? Does Atlassian do such business partnering arrangements? It's not an addon for an Atlassian product so does not seem to fit to the Atlassian marketplace.

Downvoted for what reason?

I would have thought that making business connections on HN is just exactly the right thing to be doing.....

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by melvinmt »

rsp1984 wrote: post #446
deepuj wrote: post #322

This is depressing. Trello is a beloved software for a lot of people. It's sad that Trello decided to sell off to Atlassian. I can't believe the same company that makes Jira is going to run Trello. SourceTree is the only software that they make that doesn't suck.

SourceTree is the only software that they make that doesn't suck. If you compare SourceTree to other halfway modern git clients (like Tower or GitX-dev), oh boy does it suck! The layout is completely disorganized, the diffing is super lousy. It's slow. It sucks up lots of memory. It's literally the last GUI client I'd use before just going to the command line.

Ah, I almost forgot about GitX, my first git GUI client before I started using git gui itself.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by acidburnNSA »

allover wrote: post #534
jimbokun wrote: post #504

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I'm very satisfied using JIRA and Confluence at work. Are there better alternatives out there I just don't know about?

Honestly yeah I'd like to hear this answer. For a wiki especially, our team spent ages searching for one that was hosted, private and searchable. Confluence seemed like the only thing with a decent search. Major drawback of Confluence I've found is that Markdown is not first class, and only supported via some shitty plugin, that renders badly to boot. But the rest of the company (and half my tech team for that matter…

Phabricator is pretty good for issue tracking and code review. The wiki is totally usable but not as polished as Confluence.

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Post by bacongobbler »

edraferi wrote: post #300
chinhodado wrote: post #283

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And don't even get me started on SourceTree. Just about every release since 1.5.2 is a disaster, to the point of almost non-usable right now.

Really? I'm pretty happy with it. Definitely better than Github desktop, and more full featured than the light git extensions you find in most editors. What Git GUI do you prefer?

tig. It's been under active development for over 10 years now. https://github.com/jonas/tig

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by ajdlinux »

jsjohnst wrote: post #570
mhp wrote: post #366

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Trellists made Trello. And the Trellists are going to keep working on Trello at Atlassian. Atlassian understands that Trello is unique and beloved and they definitely do not want to mess that up. Read this article that Jordan Novet wrote. I know seeing is believing and you will have to wait and see, but I agree with everything Jay Simons says in this interview. "During the interview, Simons took time to assure me…

David Karp (as just one example) said virtually the exact same thing re: Yahoo! acquisition. Don't be that guy and spin a Jobs-esque reality distortion field. If things were so perfect to begin with at Trello, you wouldn't be selling. The fact that you did indicates something needed changing. You hope things won't change for the worse, as do your users, but assuring people that won't happen makes about as much since…

I'm going to hazard a guess that the main thing that "needed changing" was "not having $425 million".
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