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Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by enra on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:59PM (#23693510)
Founder here. Here to answer any questions you might have.

We built Linear as we’re frustrated the practices and the available tools when it came to managing software projects.

On the product, we especially tackled the performance problem. Everything is synced to the client and we sync just delta packages between the cloud and client as changes happen. This way all actions a happen instantly and navigating around the app is really fast. And the app works offline too.

We also streamlined the UI and UX, overall we are rethinking what comes after agile for software development. I think many teams looking for something simple to run their teams.

Our announcement post: https://medium.com/linear-app/practices-for-building-linear-...

Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by mdeeks on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:26PM (#23694385)
One of the common workflows for us with Jira is to search for things that have changed in the last day

  status changed during (-1d, now())
That lets me as a manager or a lead, see activity in their project and know when engineers update their tickets with details or comments. Is there a way to do that with Linear?

For all the hate that Jira (deservedly) gets, its search is extremely powerful. Maybe it's best feature. I'm not sure how well Linear would scale for a larger org of hundreds of engineers, dozens of teams, and tens of thousands of tickets without similar search abilities. Any roadmap plans for that?

Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by enra on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:53PM (#23694659)
We want Linear to scale large orgs with hundreds of engineers. We think most of the time you still work in ~10 person teams so we think lot of the experience stays the same but there are just more teams, more layers, and you need powerful search like this.

We do have plans to enable creating custom views so you could build views like this that present the information in a specific way. We do have GraphQL api it's even possible to build external view like this today: https://github.com/linearapp/linear/blob/master/docs/API.md

Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by justsomedood on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:23AM (#23697718)
We have been using Linear at work, but at times loading a page can be dirt slow at 30+ seconds or more in Firefox. Once he page loads interactions are fairly quick, but the page loads times for me make it hard to load an issue to look at the comments so I use them less frequently now.
Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by ghayes on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:07PM (#23693604)
We've been using Linear for an 8-person engineering team for the last few months, and I just want to say thank you -- we've really loved it. The well-designed app with hotkeys makes managing tickets and cycles so fast that it doesn't interrupt your concentration to update a ticket and continue working. It's really brought the fun back to engineering management.
Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by enra on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:43PM (#23693979)
Awesome to hear! We also think that little annoyances really hurt the team productivity over time. Especially in tools that you use daily.
Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by jay_kyburz on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @05:52PM (#23695211)
I went looking for a version of the site with some issues in it I can just play around with. Perhaps that's something you could link to from the homepage.

Good old Fog Bugz used to have that.

Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by winrid on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:16AM (#23697984)
What's the architecture behind the near-realtime updates? How do you handle fanout/scaling?
Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by nurpax on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:11PM (#23694251)
Looking forward to trying out Linear. I'd really love to use a tool with good performance and offline support! Your website looks slick and lovely too.

Alas, the e-mail sign up seems to take a while to send the registration link e-mail. When I got the e-mail after maybe 5-10 minutes of waiting, the sign up link had already expired. :( It says "Verification code expired. Please request a new one." I did, but the same thing happened.

Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by enra on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:56PM (#23694677)
Sorry about that! It should work now.

We had some issues (and wondering if Gmail is having issues) with emails today. We rolled a fix that increased token expiration and currently looking our email provider if there are things we can do to speed it up.

Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by JaakkoP on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @06:00PM (#23695278)
I think it's Gmail having issues since our login emails sent to Gmail and GSuite arrived late as well. It's been like 7-10min delay, even though our mail delivery system said that the email was delivered.
Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by ivanfon on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:09PM (#23693630)
Is the desktop app native?
Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by ComputerGuru on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:24PM (#23693792)
No, it’s just electron. I don’t see the benefit over making it a PWA or even just a regular self-hosted web app.
Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by nurpax on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:35PM (#23693896)
The download page says only macOS is currently supported. Electron supports Windows and Linux quite well - any ETA on when you will be adding these platforms?
Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by enra on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:42PM (#23693969)
We are working on this. We have some test build, but each platform adds bit complexity to the build process so looking to automate better first.

All Linear features, including the offline mode works on the browser tool.

Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by egorfine on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:44PM (#23693987)
Hello. Looks good on the screenshots, I'd love to try it for my team but the signup link somehow sends me to Google instead of signup. /s How do I try it?

On a side note, I use Edge on a Mac and the signup page doesn't detect my browser as compatible; it's just Chromium inside, must be totally compatible with everything.

Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by jorde on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:54PM (#23694102)
This shouldn't be the case. Would you mind sharing screenshots of the link you're pressing, preferably with video to hello@ our domain? We'll investigate. In the meantime, you can signup/login here: https://linear.app/login

On browser detection, we need to look at Edge. I don't think we updated the list in a while (we support all evergreen browsers).

Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by egorfine on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @06:03AM (#23699798)
Oh thank you! This link did work!
Re:Linear – A fast issue tracker by tbodt on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @06:17PM (#23695405)
The landing page seems to say that interactions take under 100ms. What computer did you measure this on?