Dear Trello/Atlassian Team,
I have been a Trello user for over 5 years, and I have never been as frustrated with a tool as I am now. Trello has become unbearably slow — every time I open it, the loading times completely break my workflow and rhythm.
What makes this even worse is the silence from your side: no meaningful updates, no clear communication, and no answers through support or social channels. It feels like the company has abandoned the product and, by extension, its loyal user base.
This lack of respect for customers, the market, and Trello’s own history is extremely disappointing. Users like me have invested years of trust and reliance on Trello, and to see it deteriorate without accountability or improvement is unacceptable.
I strongly believe companies should be held responsible for this level of disregard. Please take this feedback seriously — Trello deserves better, and so do your users.
Sincerely,
You have been tagged you as a free user, apologies if this is not the case.
In truth, if more people had paid for Trello over the years, it is feasible that we wouldn't be where we are today. I'm not pointing fingers at you, I understand that many can't afford to pay for tools like Trello.
Trello has offered too much for free (and cheap on paid subscriptions), which has weakened its ability to stand up against the enterprise money making machine of Jira. Had it made more money over the years, it would have had more of fighting chance to be more than just a "Personal Productivity" tool, as it is being marketed today.
From a technical perspective, the changes haven't affected the performance dramatically from what I have seen and I spend my as a consultant in many many workspaces of all shapes and sizes. I would recommend having a bit of a flush, clear the browser cache and ensure best practice on your boards of keeping the card count sensible (performance tends to start to degrade above 1000 cards on a board), not too many lists, keep labels under control etc...
From a feedback perspective, they may not have yet got it right but they are certainly trying. The Trello team at Atlassian post articles and reply to posts in here more than any other team product team I've seen. They also put a lot of effort in publicising changes within Trello. The new Trello featured in many online publications and they sent emails out. They are trying the best they can with very limited resources (this circles back to the point above). I'm not making excuses, just explaining the reality.
Has Atlassian screwed Trello?? Probably!
Is it still the best tool available for millions of people?? Absolutely!
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