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Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform

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

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Post by puranjay »

zamland wrote: post #62

I think Trello is going to win the task management wars. It's better designed for mobile (card interfaces), simple to start with additional functionality bundled in, its interface is general purpose rather than specific to developers, and it's building a robust platform. I think this company has executed it very well. Bravo.

It also has a head start over the competitors. This might sound like not a big deal, but it has already some very vocal supporters in the blogosphere who've been recommending it for ages.

The only way it can fuck up is if it goes the Evernote way

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

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Post by jon-wood »

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's multiple profile support can be a big help here if you're that determined to separate things. Set up a profile for personal stuff, and one for work stuff, and then you can have both accounts logged in at once.

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

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Post by threatofrain »

zamland wrote: post #62

I think Trello is going to win the task management wars. It's better designed for mobile (card interfaces), simple to start with additional functionality bundled in, its interface is general purpose rather than specific to developers, and it's building a robust platform. I think this company has executed it very well. Bravo.

One thing that surprises me is that Trello's cards don't behave like cards, whether on iOS or Android. They simply look like cards. You don't swipe them to do anything. You don't multi-select the cards.

They're just card-looking buttons that open up a modal dialogue, and they've been this way since the beginning. I find it rather slow or bulky compared to Google's concept of cards.

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

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Post by realusername »

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…

If someone at Skype could take some notes on this also...

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

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Post by lucian1900 »

jon-wood wrote: post #82
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's multiple profile support can be a big help here if you're that determined to separate things. Set up a profile for personal stuff, and one for work stuff, and then you can have both accounts logged in at once.

That is very useful indeed and I also do it for a lot of things.

However, it doesn't solve the problem the mobile apps have.

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

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Post by leuma »

What is nice about the Trello is that, they have never for once confined themselves to developer community. From the beginning Trello was given as tool to organize yourself, and it still appeals to my wife as it does appeal to me.

The new Power-Ups platform would definitely add more dimensions to trello.

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

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Post by middus »

rogerbinns wrote: post #56
jlarocco wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? That is so backwards from my experience that I'm tempted to think it's a troll, or I'm completely missing what you're trying to say. I have two Trello accounts and have never had a problem switching between them. I have one for work and another for personal stuff, just like you suggest, and it works fantastic. If I'm logged in to one and want to check the other I just log out, enter the credentials for the othe…

> ... it works fantastic ... just log out, enter the credentials for the other account ... So you just have to log out and re-enter credentials each time you want to view a different account? And that is fantastic? Doing it several times a day is a pain. Also you only get notifications for the currently logged in account, so you'd need multiple browsers running just to get notifications from both. Then if you have a…

I think he is saying that it works for people who are either "at work" or "at home". Once you want to have your work notifactions during your leisure time, it gets complicated.

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

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Post by x1024 »

mkuhn wrote: post #72
yazriel wrote: post #71

Trello??? It is so under powered. They been at it for years and still no decent SEARCH, no proper sub-tasks or dependencies, etc. To me, it feels like there is no real active development on this.

Maybe not having all these features is part of the concept?

Maybe, but at least the lack of "search" is critical.

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

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Post by hobs »

jc4p wrote: post #61
hobs wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

man I love running into you on here, hope you're doing well :)

Haha, same to you pvam. If you havent already found him https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cryoshon

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

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Post by rogerbinns »

isaiahg wrote: post #75
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…

Can't you easily accomplish this using their teams feature? I just set up a team and add the appropriate users with the right permissions for the team's boards.

Lets say I am a personal user, and share some boards with family and friends. Now you want to add me to a team for work. You won't be able to find me using my work email address - instead you'll have to map in whatever random service I use for personal email. Let's hope my personal identity doesn't conflict with work.

Now I am team member and can also access boards. That also means that team boards are exposed whenever and wherever I login, even if I only want to login for personal information. Some family members and friends may know my personal login, so now team information is also accessible to them.

I'll now get notifications for personal and work related activity going to the same browsers and email accounts. Are you sure work's admin really wants work information going to my personal email account? Do I want to get distracted by personal notifications during a work day and vice versa?

Now that my personal and work are intermingled, I am also more likely to make a mistake such as creating new boards/lists/cards in the "wrong" place, and it will be harder to notice. Work can't be sure that they have everything backed up.

Then a year later I leave. Somehow the work admin is going to have to figure out which user I am (remember not related to work conventions and standards), and disentangle me. Providing I have been perfect and never intermingled anything, it will be fine. The odds of that are low.

Essentially the single account has just made everything worse, to the benefit of no-one.

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