LibreBoard
Productivity
kanban task board
SHOW HN2015
243points
98comments
#69of 2,565 in 2015
Top 3%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
5 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 8 mixed, 33 critical, out of 59 comments about the project. Thread score -0.40.
Execution: 1 for, 18 againstDesign: 1 for, 10 againstPrivacy: 2 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for internal use with data under the user's control
From 2 comments
I think if this had been actually clean-room reverse-engineered, it wouldn't be getting the backlash it's getting. The fact that the LibreBoard devs outright ripped off Trello's…
yellowapple on HNWow. Just wow. Two years ago we had an internal row about people using Trello and possibly exposing internal data (which we attempted to solve through various means). Having this…
rcarmo on HN
Good open-source effort and development work
From 2 comments
I don't endorse a blatant rip off of the UI and the assets. You can do better than that. Otherwise, good job on the development effort and open source initiative.
pxlpshr on HNFantastic! Gotta love the people who salivate at the mouth with talks of litigation. Just tweak the UI and this product is a great alternative. Congratulations on your launch
sergiotapia on HN
Objections
Copies Trello's UI, CSS and assets, raising copyright concerns
From 4 comments
I love the idea of open source tools, but this goes way too far. This isn't just rebuilding a popular concept, this is taking code that was written by a for-profit company and…
austenallred on HNWhile I love the idea of an open source tool that explores the same problems that Trello does and potentially even solves it in a very similar way, I have to admit that the exact…
ericskiff on HNSee https://github.com/libreboard/libreboard/commit/348081d9eca451ae547b0803b8a07db4061cc4d7, where they check a beautified version of Trello's CSS file into their MIT licensed…
danlec on HNWow...this looks like a clone of Trello, sorry I cannot support this. I have been using Trello for a long time and I refuse to give credits to someone who blatantly stole the…
Globz on HN
Received a DMCA takedown notice from GitHub
From 3 comments
There is a discussion started in a GitHub issue about this. I must suggest you a comment by the project's co-owner:…
r3bl on HNAnd now they were just DMCA'ed, rightfully so in my opinion. If you believe in open source, then you need to be respectful of copyright law. It is the foundation for open source…
krschultz on HNThey received DMCA takedown notice from github because the user interface https://github.com/libreboard/libreboard/commit/14e6b2fb91496d4e35412a5106b559a271490291
peeyek on HN
Maintainers' stance on copyright seems careless
From 2 comments
Also in a previous comment by the author, before the DMCA: I also believe that it's not in Trello Inc. interest to try to censure us because of the Streisand effect, and it would…
pb2au on HN"In the meantime, please clone the repository on your local computer so we can have a lot of copies of it." Wow. That's uh. Something.
cheald on HN
Requests
Create an original visual design instead of copying Trello's look
From 3 comments
I think if this had been actually clean-room reverse-engineered, it wouldn't be getting the backlash it's getting. The fact that the LibreBoard devs outright ripped off Trello's…
yellowapple on HNIt's so sad that such great work can bring so many negative repercussions just because the project creator's decided to blatantly rip off Trello's assets. The project would be…
janus on HNWell, apparently they reimplemented all the logic by their own, they just copied the visual from Trello, with a single CSS appropriation. They shouldn't have copied the CSS, but…
fiatjaf on HN
Add a different visual style to the project
From 2 comments
I don't endorse a blatant rip off of the UI and the assets. You can do better than that. Otherwise, good job on the development effort and open source initiative.
pxlpshr on HNIt's so sad that such great work can bring so many negative repercussions just because the project creator's decided to blatantly rip off Trello's assets. The project would be…
janus on HN
Questions
Is the look and feel copying legal?
From 2 comments
While I love the idea of an open source tool that explores the same problems that Trello does and potentially even solves it in a very similar way, I have to admit that the exact…
ericskiff on HNI'd love to hear from somebody who knows better, but my understanding is that the legal aspects of look-and-feel ripoffs have never been settled in court. In one sense, that…
wpietri on HN
Is it meant to compete with Trello Gold?
From 1 comment
Trello is free, so is this meant to complete with Trello Gold?
codereflection on HN
Alternatives named
Trello
From 2 comments
Trello is free, so is this meant to complete with Trello Gold?
codereflection on HNI like it. I'm using Trello now, but the interface doesn't work that convenient on mobile I think. So I was thinking to make a client of my own using the Trello API, but this way…
gitaarik on HN
JIRA Agile boards
From 1 comment
Not an expert here, but isn't that how the task-managing board should look like? The first time I saw Trello I thought it looked very similar to the JIRA Agile boards by…
ljk on HN
Telescope
From 1 comment
It is a great example of a bigger open-source Meteor apps in a wild along-side with Telescope (http://www.telesc.pe/) which is also well documented and is extensible.
imslavko on HN
Youfle
From 1 comment
Some time ago I made Youfle[1]. I was trying to make a Trello clone, but for structured data, like a direct interface to a document database that could be used (and/or extended)…
fiatjaf on HN
Desert
From 1 comment
Been kinda building a trello-like app myself. But it's far more simplistic in features, and i'm trying to build it so it's way more mobile friendly. I have the front end as open…
agmcleod on HN