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

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Post by jamesfzhang » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 5:54 PM UTC

rogerbinns wrote: post #25

jamesfzhang wrote: post #21

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If I'm not mistaken, Dropbox has had multiple account support for some time (about a year?).

That made me burst out in laughter. It has been longer than a year, and they made a huge mess of it. Essentially you can do a pseudo-merge of exactly one personal account into exactly one business account, that is then the beginning of all sorts of glitches and problems. That includes things like removing that personal user from the business account deleting all their personal content, being unable to separate the fo…

Glad to have made you laugh. I personally have never encountered any of the problems you mentioned. I used to work at a company that used Dropbox for Business and I just remember getting an email that I could connect that account with my personal one. I did connect the two and it worked fine for me. I had a simple use case so I didn't do anything out of the ordinary.

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

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Post by jlarocco » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 9:22 PM UTC

rogerbinns wrote: post #56

jlarocco wrote: post #51

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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 wouldn't use Trello if they linked multiple accounts like that. TBH, I can't imagine a situation where I'd want to get work notifications at home or home notifications at work. Ditto for mobile devices. Work notifications go to the work device, home notifications to my personal device, and I don't want them mashed together.

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

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Post by jlarocco » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 9:28 PM UTC

victorhooi wrote: post #74

jlarocco wrote: post #51

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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…

You mentioned that your work Gmail account and your personal Gmail account as "inextricably linked together". Are you able to provide any more details around this? I wasn't even aware that was possible.

If I'm currently logged into my work GMail account and want to check my personal email, I logout, and it brings me to a login page with my work GMail account displayed, and a password field. Below that is a "Sign in with a different account" link, and if I click it both my personal and work email accounts are shown.

I've also noticed small things like the avatar image I set at work becomes avatar image for my personal account.

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

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Post by thedufer » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 10:59 PM UTC

jay_kyburz wrote: post #58

thedufer wrote: post #52

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Where does that data come from? It's significantly out of date. I guess because the tech stack blog post is so old?

Can you tell us if the core components are the same. Node, Redis, Mongo? I've been looking at Node, Redis, PostgreSQL for my next project.

Node, Redis, Mongo are all still in use (although Redis pub/sub no longer is). There are a lot more components, though, and some of the front-end libraries listed are no longer true.

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

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Post by zamland » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 10:13 PM UTC

threatofrain wrote: post #83

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.

yes fair point. agreed.

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

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Post by zamland » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 10:13 PM UTC

puranjay wrote: post #81

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

Well, I think the product is just better. Asana, Atlassian, and other products has been out there for ages.

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

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Post by limeyx » Fri, Jan 22, 2016, 9:35 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #15

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…

> 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.

And still does daily. Try having multiple email accounts and trying to use the GoogleDrive Web UI from more than one at once ... not bad for a ~$400+ BN company !