I tweeted this earlier …
we’ve stopped using @trello at @fanzter, but I still love the product. The new board view looks great: http://t.co/fhvRuFN87X #fb
— Sujal Shah (@sujal) June 18, 2013
… which prompted a few people to ask, "Why'd you stop using Trello?"
The answer is pretty specific to us and our particular organizational inertia (such as it is for a small company like us), but here it is:
We liked Trello a lot, but we ended up switching to use Github issues. While it's somewhat inferior to Trello, it had two features that made it compelling.
We use Github for source control, and Trello really doesn't integrate with that workflow at all. For example, we can manage Github issues from our commit messages, reference them, and comment on them in a place we already have to look.
We use Campfire, and Trello didn't have any integration with it. We could've built that, but Github already has it, and so laziness won the day.
In truth, Github issues is pretty nice, too, so it's not like we're giving up that much.
I did like Trello's visibility and the visual metaphor. It also is a lovely app. The other great thing about it was that it was easy to throw it up on the screen and use during meetings. Github issues (or any bug tracker, really), is merely OK projected.
Anyway, all of this might be moot now. Someone did the work we didn't want to do, and built a service that integrates Github & Trello. We may have to take a look at this. :)