[medinismo]

Can someone explain to me how someone like Fog Creek would let an app like Trello go dark. Dont their carefully selected and perfectly screened engineers get paid gobs of money to prevent exactly this scenario from happening by having data centers in other locations replicate the one you have in your own house.

[cdmoyer]

They decide that the cost is not worth the benefit.

Excluding back-seat systems engineers on sites like this, I suspect that most of their customers will be a bit upset, but give them the benefit of the doubt and be glad to pay slightly less monthly (or nothing for Trello) and suffer a short outage.

[danmaz74]

Last time I checked, Trello was a free app...

[kalininalex]

Because, per Spolsky, Fog Creek wants to achieve a widespread adoption first before they start charging for it (with probably a free tier remaining). Other than that, Trello is very much a commercial app.

Fogbugz IS a commercial app, and at $25/mo (if I remember right) it's in the same category as most other commercial apps, i.e. it's not particularly cheap. It's still down.

[blorenz]

Sure, the situation is not ideal. Trello is a boon to my productivity and has been a gift at being free. Spolsky has given so much to the community that I, personally, can tolerate this inconvenience to my workflow.