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Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by mkopinsky on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:01PM (#2993972)
Originally posted this on the announcement blogpost, but my comment is still awaiting moderation, and joel is posting here. :-)

Several major +1s: 1) Use of Google login, with ability to set a password to log in without that. I LOVE this, and it fits with what Joel (and Jeff Atwood) have been proselytizing for a while about the use of OpenID.

2) Awesome, responsive UI.

Also a few -1s: 1) No indication about pricing plans. Is this going to cost money one day? EDIT: I see now that you mention in the blog post that it’s free. And the site says "Creating an account is free and easy", but you know how often sites say that but mean "creating an account is easy, but to use our software in any meaningful way you’ll have to pay."

2) I had a problem when I created a new board. The UI took a while to respond, during which time I got confused, created another new board with the same name, and ended up with two new boards with the same name.

Suggestion: The menu that opens when you click the arrow in the corner of a card should open with right-click as well. This is how assembla’s card board works, and I like it that way.

Suggestion: Labels should take one click, rather than two. On the menu row for labels just have six colored squares to click on. Maybe that won’t work so well for smartphone users, but for a desktop, I’d rather save the click.

Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by shneusk on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:02PM (#2993977)
apply labels by hovering over a card and hitting a number key
Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by mkopinsky on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:05PM (#2993993)
Cool, but if it ain't documented, it don't exist. (I guess now it's documented in this HN comment. :-))
Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by ianthehenry on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:21PM (#2994044)
If you click the manual icon in the menu, you can get to a list of the keyboard shortcuts. Direct link: https://trello.com/shortcuts
Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by spolsky on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:36PM (#2994099)
Pretty sure this feature is in the online help, along with lots of other cool tricks
Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by devin on Thursday September 15, 2011 @12:12PM (#3000903)
Not directly related to this string of comments, but as far as providing feedback... How can I do this? I don't see an obvious place to provide feedback.

Markdown code blocks don't seem to be working. (You can't put 4 spaces before code, but backticks work)

Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by mkopinsky on Thursday September 15, 2011 @09:47AM (#3000292)
Didn't notice the online help initially. Thanks for pointing it out.

Shouldn't Assign be "Hover + [Space]" rather than just "[Space]"?

Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by jjg on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:12PM (#2994016)
Also documented here: https://trello.com/shortcuts
Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by mhp on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:05PM (#2993991)
I think #2 problem was related to this by looking at your comment timing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2993983
Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by mkopinsky on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:08PM (#2993999)
#2 occurred 15 minutes ago. Not necessarily related to that issue, but possibly another quirk.

Related: Is there a way to delete boards, or just to close them? I now have two junk boards (the original duplicate, and an empty board I just created to test) and I can imagine that list can get full pretty quick.

Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by mhp on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:14PM (#2994027)
Close == Delete (kind of, in that it will do what you want but you can undo it later if you really need to)
Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by FreshCode on Friday September 16, 2011 @06:03AM (#3003857)
How do I undo a close board?
Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by mkopinsky on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:14PM (#2994028)
What do the colored squares over my avatar mean?
Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by jjg on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:39PM (#2994112)
It indicates your online status.

Green: Online and active, Yellow: Online, but inactive, Grey: Not online

When someone is online it means that they're connected to Trello, but they're not necessarily looking at the same board as you.

Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by LearnYouALisp on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @11:45PM (#2998819)
Thanks for explaining that. I would have expected mouseover text for those like there is for the blue square.
Re:Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together by bobbygrace on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:44PM (#2994129)
The blue icon means you're an admin of the board (or organization). The green/yellow/grey icon means you're online/idle/offline.