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by stevekemp 375 days ago
How does it compare to the existing open-source boards, such as:

https://wekan.github.io/

https://taiga.io/

https://kanboard.org/

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I went down the rabbit hole of self hosted kanban boards recently. Honestly, nothing comes close to Trello and while I love the open source communities (and supporting them), these alternatives usually dont come close, or worse they try to be super feature rich and its get in the way of their functionality. The better open source options tend to be airtable alternatives or full blown project management tools (Eigenboard, Plane, etc)
I think I found Plane[1], but Eigenboard?

https://github.com/makeplane/plane?tab=readme-ov-file

Eigenfocus, sorry! https://eigenfocus.com/
Plane is so sick. I think it's better than trello
Thank you, I hadn't heard of Plane... and ... nice
Or this one that I've been self-hosting for my team: https://vikunja.io/
I've also been using Vikunja locally for myself, but the UX really isn't the best and it isn't keyboard-driven which is a bit of a shame. The mobile version also isn't really ready for real usage, seems to lose state every now and then, or disconnect in some manner.
We have been using Vikunja for our team for about 2/3 years and it's good. It has it's quirks but generally works. What we haven't done well is keeping up to date with development as the version we installed did enough for us. We recently found out that they moved main development to github and we are keen to contribute where we can as we have found value in it.
Your comment just made me think about the fact I installed Vikunja like 2 years ago and I haven't updated it since. D:
Planka is not open-source.
There is fork of Planka with MIT license:

https://github.com/RARgames/4gaBoards

They don't appear to be using an OSI-approved license, but the source code is available. So depending on your use-case that may be an academic distinction.
Its license has strict limitations on what you can use it for.

It’s not open source in any reasonable sense.

It is open source (the code is right there), but it's not Open Source due to what GP references. There is a distinction.
We're talking in English, not in Go. The meaning doesn't change that much because of using uppercase initials. What you're referring to has already been consolidated as "source available".
OFF: Can we do something about this "open source" = "Open Source" usage? I want the opposite, "open source" = "source available" usage, because

    - that's what the words mean. 
    - the concept of Open Source is better denoted by a Proper Noun anyway
I think the "open source" = "Open Source" usage will be a friction point forever if it stays. Can we ..

  - revert the usage to "open source" = "source available", or
  - decide that "open source" with small letters should not to be used (use "Open Source" or "source available" instead), or
  - defend "open source" = "Open Source" usage in a blogpost once and for all, and lessen this friction?
That’s not what open source means. That is generally called source available.
I'm not sure the same argument that Facebook's marketing teams use, hold a lot of water on a really programming-heavy forum like this :)
That’s just called „source available“.
But since [oO]pen [sS]ource has a broadly understood meaning that's different, we shouldn't deliberately use the same description for both ideas.

If you want to describe it as "source available", I'll happily go along with it. It's not open source, though. The source is visible, but it's not open to use. I mean, you can find the leaked Windows source code online, but it's not open source just because you can look at it.

I am using Planka for my personal projects. Works great!
also Obsidian with Kanban plugin
Obsidian is not open-source.
and Nullboard: https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard

i don't understand the wave of downvotes but whatever

Thank you, hosted demo with no login required saving to local storage is exactly what i was looking for.
Pretty obviously because this one is very different in philosophy (minimalism) than the one OP is working on while the other ones that have been posted aim for feature parity (at least) with Trello?
OK, i see
It takes forever to compile, the locally hosted solution links to the online one at https://kan.bn and you've got to spend half a day to figure out how to truly self host