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My team wanted to start using Trello to better organize the work we have to do and, since I believe it's much easier to start using foss software from the beginning rather then switching to it after years of using something else, I wanted to suggest now a different option, possibly selfhosted.

I've seen online that there is Focalboard that seems to be what we are looking for but I've seen it recently switched from being backed by mattermost team to be community-driven and I didn't found enough documentation on how to install it with docker on an arm server... Does anyone use it? Is it a good option or there are better ones? And if you're using it, could you help me spinning it up?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

vikunja, plane, taiga, focalboard, wekan, restyaboard, planka

integrated in: openproject, anytype, cryptpad, nextcloud, php version of owncloud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

wekan

When atlassian acquired trello, I exported some of my boards to see if wekan could import them - to my surprise, it could (at least for the kinds of features I used).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

+1 for vikunja, used that in college for managing all my assignments and use it now for managing my side projects and family events!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

We recently moved away from Trello and settled on GitLab. Might sound a weird decision at first glance, but you can just create an empty repo, create issues instead of cards and visualize them in den "Boards" view.

Key drivers for doing so were that we rely heavily on GitLab already, and that we wanted a trustworthy solution in terms of data privacy. But I guess you'd have a bit of a hard time selling this to an audience that has no experience with GitLab, so decide for yourself if its viable in your case

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Vikunja is one option. Selfhosted, open source and Trello-like.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There is also nextcloud deck. It's minimal but enough. Kanboard is also an alternative and there is another one but i forgot its name.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Planka looks very promising too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using planka and have been quite happy with my experiences for the last couple of months.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am installing Planka right now to try it out, after an hour of failing to get Focalboard to run locally. Glad to hear it should work well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've had bad experience with FocalBoard. Several times it lost data for no apparent reason, including during updates. Eventually I decided to stop using it because it was too fragile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Youtrack is nice and can be self hosted but costs money beyond 10 users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really like wekan for this. It's straightforward. Gets updates. And is flexible in terms of adding new fields to cards etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tasks.md because i made it, it's docker based and quite easy to setup

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago