Gone, but not Forgotten: A Trello obituary

Trello for teams is dead (2025)

On August 26th, 2025, I saw a post on Reddit:

“Trello will not be accepting new feature requests related to project management” – Atlassian forum

And I felt weirdly sad.

Trello played a big role in my career. This feels like the end of an era.

The original Trello (2011)

Back in 2011, I was building a mobile gaming company with a small team. We discovered Trello when we saw a presentation on TechCrunch and immediately loved it. It was fast, simple and way ahead of time.

We built our whole company on it - including Forces of Freedom, a mobile game that ended up with 50 million downloads and 10k concurrent players at it’s peak.

I even emailed the Trello team at one point offering to pay, because we felt bad using such a great product for free.

The Atlassian acquisition (2017)

In 2017, Trello was acquired by Atlassian. Almost immediately, things felt off. It became slower. Clunkier. There was even a huge banner telling users to switch to Jira!

That felt weird. Jira, was everything Trello wasn’t: bloated, confusing, slow and a complete UX nightmare.

Being told to “upgrade” to Jira and pay for an inferior product was insulting!

That’s when I had the feeling Trello was finished.

The post on Reddit a few weeks ago just confirmed it… Atlassian is pivoting Trello from a project management app to a personal companion. IT will no longer support any team features.

To put it simply, Trello for teams is dead.

I want Trello’s legacy to live on (2025)

After I exited my gaming company, I wanted to bring that simple polish and speed I loved in Trello - but make it more scalable. That’s when I started Superthread.

We took the core ideas from Trello and scaled them up by adding: Spaces , Pages, Projects, Child Cards, Saved Filters (views)… and many other features you’d normally pay for in Jira, Asana, Monday, Clickup, etc.

Atlassian is stating that Trello should not be used for team project management… well, we’re doubling down that Superthread is specifically made for teams and project management.

Honouring Trello for teams

Superthread doesn’t have everything Trello had (yet). So in honour of Trello’s legacy, we’re committing to adding: Card Covers, Public Boards & Custom Fields

Former Trello users: we see you, we salute you, and we welcome you with open arms. We’re giving away our paid Superthread pro plan away for free for life (any team size) for the next 30 days so you can tell us what’s missing.

Final thoughts

Trello made project management feel fun and fast. That feeling is worth preserving.

If you’re looking for a new home after Trello, and you miss that feeling, check out Superthread.

Trello as we knew it might be gone. But the spirit lives on.