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I see all the people here talking about JIRA or/and Bitbucket server. However Confulence is not mentioned that much. I think the hardest product to replace is
by freefaler 4y ago
I see all the people here talking about JIRA or/and Bitbucket server. However Confulence is not mentioned that much.
I think the hardest product to replace is Confluence, especially on-prem, when you need your data inside your firewall.
There are many bad things in Confluence:
1. search is completely broken since several versions
2. the editor is not very good
3. it's just too slow
Hoever, there is 1 very good feature, but badly implemented. The ability to add complex objects, like JIRA ticket lists, Children pages, HTML embeds and other dynamic stuff. This helps a lot with building good dynamic pages fast. All the other tools are only
I've been searching high and low for a replacement and still haven't found one.
Also Atlassian got so greedy that they've removed on-prem cheap plans. I really hope someone builds a better Confluence with dynamic objects inside.
And if someone already did that on-premise I'll be really grateful for a hint.
- cypherg 4y agomate, on-prem is dead. it's not just atlassian, it's most software that can be run as saas. when people run on-prem they get hacked, for failing to patch or doing something equally ignorant, which ironically makes atlassian look bad. plus they would have to maintain 2 versions of the software, the saas version and the on-prem. just not worth it. better in invest in making their cloud better (get FedRAMP, etc)
- sschueller 4y agoOn prem is definitely not dead. I know a few angry Atlassian customers that are now forced to shelling out 50k a year so they can continue to use jira on prem because it is still cheaper than migrating to an alternative. Not every one can dump their data into some cloud that is located somewhere in the void.
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- freefaler 4y agoMost of the time these are behind a firewall so bugs are not that dangerous. Also most of the companies that choose on-prem have their own sysadmins and are more capable to protect themselves. On-prem requirements can be legal, but also it's a bad practice to leave core business processes and data outside of your control. What if the vendor decides to raise the prices (like Atlassian did) or to discontinue the product altogether? The stability of the company can be hindered by a "management decision" outside of your control. That's why I think on-prem wouldn't be dead, even for smaller companies.
- wlonkly 4y ago> search is completely broken since several versions The terrible secret of Confluence search is that it defaults to OR between terms (which I think is a Lucene default that it inherited, even if it doesn't use Lucene anymore). Once I started remembering to add AND between my search terms my searches became much more relevant. It's silly that I have to, of course, but I'm glad to get better search results.