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Yeah, Jira is horrible. Between the workflows, search filters (create one, apply it to a board, but then you can't edit it?) and everything else, it's really clunky to use.

I've done test runs with other tracking software, and I can't really find anything better. Every tool sucks in its own way. Do you have a recommendation on something that you've found that's better than Jira?

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Not really. This seems like a largely unsolved problem.

At my previous startup job we evaluated Jetbrains YouTrack and GitLab issues. Both were fairly competent looking, both had nicer interfaces, but nothing has the same feature set or ecosystem as Jira. GitLab now has multi-project boards and help desk support, so it's actually getting to be pretty useful in it's own right for issue tracking.

I like Phabricator, it doesn't offer as much combustibility as Jira but the options it does have are good for software development workflows. Plus it is open source which is always a bonus

https://phacility.com/phabricator/

Is this link a joke? Reading down the page it gets progressively snarkier, definitely in a way that leads me to think this is satire.

The phabricator people used to have extremely bad taste in diffs and version control. See eg https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20756320/how-to-prevent-...

(I think you can turn most of the annoyances off. But it leaves a bad impression. They also seem to like PHP.)

No, it’s entirely legitimate. And thank $deity for those small pockets of humor.

Thx for the advice this looks like a nice tool. If there was enough "drive" of some dev's and a thriving community this could become a standalone alternative for Jira one day.

> doesn't offer as much combustibility as Jira

Autocorrect is such a prankster

We have recently switched to Clubhouse, and while the UI is a bit cluttered it seems like a good fit so far.

Use Youtrack, it is from Jetbrains. Very flexible (you can write forkflows in a programming language), much faster, great keyboard shortcuts and much better interface.

For tracking my personal task list I'm quite liking emacs org mode so far but I'm still getting the hang of it. It's not really a solution for teams though.

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