Atlassian, at its core, is a software integrator. They buy stuff and add it to the heaping pile of duct tape garbage they’re schlepping. Trello is just another skull and crossbones on their long list of pillages. It was only a matter of time before the integration got some steam and the atlassian cancer began to take residence.
Sad because it’s my go to tool. It’ll hold on for a while longer but at some point they will turn it into some sort of Jira Kanban+
I don't blame Trello for selling but I'm not looking forward to whatever Atlassian could do to the product. I use Atlassian at work and I dislike their software, though it's not all bad.
Ah, The Atlassian Effect kicks in. Turning perfectly good products into steaming bags of horribleness.
Sorry, a little snarky. But I predicted Trello would suffer from joining Atlassian, and though this is not how I predicted that would happen (I predicted lots of utterly useless new features clogging up the UI until it's unusable), it is an indicator of The Atlassian Effect in action.
I don't think you could attribute Trello to Atlassian. Maybe all the junk they've added to it.
The other two I've honestly never heard of but that says nothing about them as products except they don't get talked about.
Funny edit, Atlassian actually made a plugin for Jira called greenhopper that was very much like trello. But they discontinued it only to realise a few years later that they liked trello and paid a massive amount of money for it. If that doesn't exemplify incompetence of a companies strategy / directorship, then I don't know what does.
whats hilarious is that the most very basic testing by atlassian themselves reveals these problems. They are a dumpster fire. Trello surely on the same path.
I don't use Trello, but it's lightyears ahead of JIRA in terms of UX. And it was endlessly flexible and fun to use. Personally I think there are still better tools than Trello (GitHub + ZenHub, for starters), but regardless people are worried that Atlassian will Atlassian-up Trello like it has done with some other tools in the past.
Shoehorning in some crappy Atlassian user login, and some crappy Atlassian global product bar, forcing in the Atlassian workflows, Atlassian Teams, and other crap... and just generally fucking up the product in a way that brings it under their umbrella and makes it disgusting to caring users in the process.
Atlassian UX is just horrible. I wouldn't go near that stuff if I didn't have a project large enough I could get a dedicated support person to handle all the workflows and permissions and groups and crap that perpetually fall every so slightly out of alignment and then nothing works right for your team. If a tool is cumbersome and gets in the way, I don't want anything to do with it.
Companies create software that reflects their structure and culture. The software that Atlassian makes is radically different -- and opposed in spirit -- to Trello. I think Trello will inevitably lose its Trello-ness.
That they were bought by Atlassian fills me with dread because of precedents set by their other products. I use Trello (and pay for it) exactly because I don't want anything like Jira.
From my experience Hacker News community dislike post like this but I have to agree, RIP Trello. Atlassian bought 17 startups and for better or worse they're not thriving.
Trello grew because it was very KISS. The features were so-so but everyone could use it easily. Atlassian just purchased the bottom segment of the project market, the segment that would never use JIRA in a million years because of it's complexity.
It's not Trello, it's Atlassian who did not learn and doesn't seem to care that much.
Even in 2017 it seemed to me Atlassian only bought it so anyone else couldn't have it and they would like it to die in the future but for the time being they could use it as future customer acquisition entry for their main products ( Jira and Confluence )
Their disinterest in Trello in recent years might just be what has saved it for so long. Once their crack teams of product development people arrives it will be game-over.
I hate this company and their products so much. The only reason I ever use them is because every single middle manager is obsessed with Jira. Jira sucks and Atlassian is a terrible company.
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