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Ask HN: Does Confluence still suck today?

3 points| iampotatoman92 | 2 months ago

Last I checked, it was slow, had poor UX and extremely trash search. What's your experience been like?

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PaulHoule|2 months ago

I avoid using it at work. I do write up extensive comments in JIRA (I am 100% satisfied with our specific JIRA) and also in code instead.

iampotatoman92|2 months ago

What part of Confluence makes you avoid it the most?

Creative take on having "docs" in JIRA! But, why not use something else which was designed with extensive documentation in mind? There are many solutions I believe. Any specific reasons?

tim-tday|2 months ago

Confluence still fucks your eye when all you want to do is type. Confluence still drops documents into the black hole of zero discovery (I’ve regularly written documents that I cannot later locate).

You still regularly fight confluence formatting to try to get your documents to look right. God help you if you deliberately or accidentally end up with a bulleted list.

It is still the worst software I have encountered in my life. (Teams may be worse, I don’t have the energy to split hairs on first or second)

If I’m forced to use confluence I require a pre-arranged location that the whole team bookmarks, I write in a raw text editor and paste into confluence, and I time box formatting to 15min if it looks like ass after that that’s what you get.

However, I’ve met someone who swears by it. But he his use case sounded like a good time for Google Sheets which he was forbidden from using for political reasons so…