Free teams on Trello will be able to use only up to 10 boards

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6 points·giovannibajo1··4 comments

I think it's an unacceptable short notice. I now feel extorted to pay an annual fee that wasn't budgeted this year, because I don't have time to plan and execute a migration, even if I wanted to.

Completely unacceptable. In my feedback to the trello team, I basically said that the way this was handled makes it easy for a decision maker to say no.

On top of this, the price isn't remotely competitive. 30-50% of an O365 license, for a single application.

In our specific case, they're asking to bill us an amount which is higher than what we spent on Github, Slack and Google Apps all together, in 2018. This isn't completely fair because there's some growth to account for, but anyway it's very hard to justify such a price.

Whelp. It was a fun ride but I was expecting something like this to happen for a while.

I realise they are cutting the deadweight off the platform and can at least appreciate that you get to keep the boards you already have. But when you are using Trello with a small not-for-profit org and the budget for online task management software is $0 then you can see where this is heading. Google Sheets?

We can install some open-source analogue like Wekan or Taiga but that then requires monitoring and updates.

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