Where is it advertised that it’s a software project management tool? Use a tool meant for managing a software project like Unfuddle.com or something if that’s what you need.

Well, it happened to all of us. We all love Basecamp, but then we start to miss this or that feature. Then, the only thing left is to find a way to solve the problem. I personally just found another tool – http://www.wrike.com/
It lets me track bugs, follow the work of my team and see everything on a timelime.

http://www.unfuddle.com seems to be a great tool for that; it combines bug and issue tracking with a hosted SVN repository. Might not be necessary for teams that have their own source control solution already, but Unfuddle + Basecamp has been a great solution for the teams I work with.

Who cares? It was never advertised as such. I work for a ‘web startup’ with 15 or so developers on our team and we love basecamp. We use Trac to manage bugs, and it integrates very nicely with SVN.

Forget Basecamp. Redmine has it all.

http://www.redmine.org
http://bitnami.org/stack/redmine

Yeah, if they add that they will suck more, because it’s gonna be one of the worst bug tracking system.

It has been mentioned but it needs to be driven home. Basecamp was written by programmers, true, to some extent it was designed by programmers, but it is not a tool for managing programming. It is a project management tool, it is for managing the aspects of running a project and the communication that requires.

I use the todo lists to manage the project and reminders and deliverables to the client, but I don’t try to make it a tool to manage tasks concerning code.

I would recommend you checkout lighthouse, it is what you need if you need code task and bug tracking.

I love basecamp for what it is, and it helps me do what I do best, code, by taking away the complexities of project management.

Queue the obligatory “check out wrike” comment. Oh, I see they already beat me to it.