Old Basecamp was not being improved actively anyway. It took them 5 years to add deadlines to to-do's, for example. The new product reminds me (even in the nam

Old Basecamp was not being improved actively anyway. It took them 5 years to add deadlines to to-do's, for example. The new product reminds me (even in the name) the failed NeXTSTEP operation systems. The incompatibility with existing solutions was part of it. Basecamp Next is not an upgrade, but a new product. It does not have the same set of features, in fact it has even less (time tracking, milestones, etc). Free accounts are also dropped out, as it seams. Old browsers like IE7 do not seam to be supported... A lot of things are going against what J was preaching all those years. I can see Basecamp fans buying it, but if I would be a new user and I would check their website for the first time (that is also designed with you already knowing about Basecamp in mind) I would ask myself "why would I pay $20-$150 a month for a product with so few features"). It's a nice to-do list, but the users got smarter and the market moved forward - users need more features, not just a one-page project page (Google Docs can do half of it out of the box and for free).