I've invited people previously to my boards, but when I click on invite this time, it wants me to create a team rather than just letting me put in an email to invite that person, why is it doing this?
@jackie.yourflexibleoffice I haven't seen that behaviour can you post a screenshot?
Hi Iain, I've checked and it is a private board, and this is what comes up.
@jackie.yourflexibleoffice Okay, well I guess they want you to create a team
I already have a team or two so I don't see this, but you can create a free team and then continue creating personal boards and inviting people to them.
Thanks Iain, weird as I've never seen this before, but I'll give it a go and create teams. Would anyone I invite have to be a team member, or can I go back to inviting individuals by their emails?
@jackie.yourflexibleoffice You just need to create at least one free team. You don't need to invite anyone to it, or pay for it, you just need to have one (I assume anyway). And yes, once you've done that, you can just keep using personal boards and inviting people by email to them.
@lylemuller hits the nail on the head. This update removes the ability to create unlimited boards for free with collaborators. We currently do not use a Business Class team, as we have been able to operate using personal boards, adding other individuals (internal & external), and upgrading specific individuals to Trello Gold when appropriate/needed.
Limiting 10 boards to a free team, essentially forces anyone who wants to collaborate on >10 boards to upgrade to Business Class (many businesses/individuals operate using more than 10 boards) - a much more costly endeavour than Trello Gold. To be honest, it seems to be forcing free/Gold users onto Business Class teams - without the notification that this change was coming.
As Lyle mentioned, one could create multiple free teams as needed, but this does affect one's workflow & process.
During a time when most businesses are in a period of belt-tightening, this change is disheartening as many who have already paid for Trello Gold (~$45p/annum) will soon need to commit to a pricier monthly subscription.
This looks like an end of Trello for me, I just tried to create a personal board and add two people and I couldn't as it asks for the team, when I don't use any teams as I work mostly with one two persons on different boards, mostly different clients. I had to search for alternative and started to use Github projects instead of Trello. I was actually expecting something like this would happed after Atlassian's acquire.
This is how you ruin a nice simple product. I don't want to make teams; I just want to manage people and clients. Now I don't know if they will be hidden from one another with this teams crap.
Yep - it's all about "Monetizing the asset". Painful but as old as the internet - build a loyal user base who like the features and help develop them - then take it all away until you pay.
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