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Linear definitely does not force you to use Cycles. Cycles aren't even enabled by default. You have to specifically go into your team and enable it. It isn't a
by mdeeks 4y ago
Linear definitely does not force you to use Cycles. Cycles aren't even enabled by default. You have to specifically go into your team and enable it. It isn't a global setting either. It's a per team. So one team can do it while another doesn't have to.
My guess is you wanted a Kanban board but didn't realize you can change the standard ticket view to a board view? If you're in the Active issue view for your team you can click the boxes icon at the top right (or hit cmd-b) to get a kanban view.
- alexjplant 4y agoI can be pretty thick sometimes but I _am_ smart enough to be able to change views in task tracking software ;-). If Linear supports disabling cycles then that's a new development... when we tried we had two others plus myself look at it and it simply wasn't an available option. Whether this was due to us not having a feature flag turned on or the wrong tier plan or what I can't say. Their method [1] specifically speaks to being rigid and working in cycles so I'm inclined to believe that this is a semi-recent change. [1] https://linear.app/method/introduction https://linear.app/method/introduction
- mdeeks 4y agoHaha sorry, I didn't mean to insinuate that. It's a tiny button though and not obvious. Was just taking a guess because it can be easy to miss and some of our users did at first. I first opened my personal Linear account in 2020 and the default was no Cycles. I created a new team in that account today and it's the default. I opened new one somewhat recently (2 months ago) for my company and the default was to have them off too. The docs for Cycles say that here too: https://linear.app/docs/use-cycles#configure https://linear.app/docs/use-cycles#configure Maybe you didn't have admin permissions on your team? Not sure.