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.<p>While you can try some hacky alternatives in a browser, they are a pain, confusing and a poor workaround. On mobile you are completely screwed, unless you want to log out and log back in each time you want to switch accounts. (You do have a long cryptic passphrase which makes this even worse?)<p>Google has shown for years how to get multiple accounts right. Why does no one seem to learn? (Yes, Dropbox I am looking at you too.)
Awesome that this hit front page. Thanks!<p>But I think the more interesting link for the HN crowd is this one:<p>How to build a Trello powerup: <a href="https://developers.trello.com/power-ups/samples" rel="nofollow">https://developers.trello.com/power-ups/samples</a><p>Sample github repo:
<a href="https://github.com/trello/power-up-template" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/trello/power-up-template</a>
Trello: if you'd let me buy you once, install you locally, and save my data locally and in an open format, like Day One, I'd be a lifer. Fantastic program otherwise, though I remain an Org man.
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.
Business Class-only is a bit frustrating (if it needs to be paid, can it be on Trello Gold too?), but this is really exciting. Would love to see if people start to develop tools for productivity (like Pomodoro and that sort of thing) with it.
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.
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.<p>edit: I was thinking of checklists, not cards.
Why do power-ups inconsistently change the markdown for Github links?<p>When you don't have power-ups enabled, it will shorten all Github links and add a nicer format to certain types but when you do have the power-ups, it no longer shortens Github links at all but adds the octocat to the beginning.<p>While having power-ups can be nice, the added inconsistency is a bit off-putting. It would be great to shorten and format all of the links in the same fashion across all boards regardless of whether or not you have power-ups enabled on that particular board.
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.<p>The new Power-Ups platform would definitely add more dimensions to trello.
Trello???<p>It is so under powered.
They been at it for years and still no decent SEARCH, no proper sub-tasks or dependencies, etc.<p>To me, it feels like there is no real active development on this.