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I've given up trying to use Confluence. Our internal instance is a wasteland of smoldering ruins. It is such a hideously bad tool on so many levels, including a
by time0ut 7y ago
I've given up trying to use Confluence. Our internal instance is a wasteland of smoldering ruins. It is such a hideously bad tool on so many levels, including a "search" feature that will fail you even if you search by exact title.
- folmar 7y agoSearch is easy - just export whole space and you get big but quite reasonable HTML file which then can be searched with ^F.
- time0ut 7y agoHeh. I have done this...
- Tomte 7y agoJust to +1 that, it's my experience, as well. Exact search for the page title does not find the page. How can that be? I mean, isn't that the simplest possible search? And as far as I understand it, Confluence search is powered by Lucene, a world-class library for natural text search. How could Atlassian make it perform that bad? Is there any explanation beyond "they are idiots", because they are probably not.
- time0ut 7y agoFull text search on fairly arbitrary content that will perform well and return high quality results is a pretty hard problem. It is largely a solved problem now, but it takes more work than just throwing everything into a Lucene index. That said, it is clear Atlassian just sucks at search and doesn't really seem to care. Search in JIRA is even worse if you can imagine that. BitBucket is ok, but a different sort of use case. I think they could make their search great if they wanted to, but why bother when the people purchasing the product probably won't even use the product enough to notice?