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What’s wrong with Confluence? We have a recently-acquired team at work that uses it for everything, and loves it. I’ve used it a bit, and I think it looks aweso

• adwww 6y ago
  It doesn't help that the Markdown flavour is not standard, and is different again from most other Atlassian products.
  • mr_toad 6y ago
    And you can only use it to compose and not edit.
• tetraca 6y ago
  My experience with confluence is that it just becomes a landfill of articles that are never read or cared about after 1-2 days they're created.
  • nateroling 6y ago
    Any suggestions for platforms that help fight against that tendency?
    • Trias11 6y ago
      Robust search. Sorry - not the platform, but capability.
  • EdwardDiego 6y ago
    Confluence is where documentation goes to die. And then rot.
• thakoppno 6y ago
  the one confluence thing that gets me is that when editing, it intercepts the command + 1 keypresses when im trying to switch tabs. instead, it just makes my current line h1.
• rikkus 6y ago
  Try finding stuff. In a large org, even with as much careful organisation and attempting to make things searchable, it just gets impossible. That doesn't mean Confluence is bad of course - it may just be a hard problem.
• thewebcount 6y ago
  Where to begin? A better question is what's not wrong with Confluence? When I log in, it shows me a shit ton of articles that I have no interest in. It's like a Facebook feed, or something, where every document everyone in my (1,000+ people) org has written in the last 24 hours is sorted reverse-chronologically. Since I only need to interface with about 10 people normally, this is worse than useless. It actually make finding stuff harder. But never mind that, how do I find just what I've written? Somewhere there's a list of "recently worked on" things, and that's sometimes useful, but I usually need to edit something I haven't touched in months. I end up having to search all of our Confluence instead of just being able to search only my own articles. It often brings up completely unrelated things and I have to do more work to figure out which are relevant. When editing, their editor steals OS keys that are used for every app, like Cmd-F for find. Instead of bringing up Safari's find panel, which is 100% always what I want, it brings up their own home-grown find that doesn't actually search the entire page. It only searches the text I'm editing and often does a poor job of it. Other command-keys are also highjacked meaning I can't do normal things like create a new window when editing text. It's bonkers bad. The calendar section becomes unusable once you have more than about 3 people adding stuff to it. The list goes on and on. I'm actually shocked that anyone here is defending it.
  • nateroling 6y ago
    Any suggests for better platforms?