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I don’t love Confluence, but at least it doesn’t do this to me.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Implied alternative to Notion for documentation/collaboration
As a company, we use Atlassian Stack... Confluence (documentation).
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: documentation
I like to call Confluence a knowledge cemetery [...] The issue IMHO is that organization of knowledge is not following any system and or no system that could be followed was ever set in place by the organization when they bought into Confluence.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: organizational knowledge management/wiki
If you are not willing to hire staff with the sole purpose of managing the content of your Jira and Confluence instances, a more opinionated, rigid product is probably a lot better for your organization.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Administering and managing content for organizational knowledge sharing.
It’s pretty bad at working with confluence it just eats tokens.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Working with Confluence via MCP
I hope some proper Jira Confluence alternatives setup in the upcoming two years to fill the void.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Documentation and collaboration (implied)
Atlassian tools for a client like mine (hundreds of employees) can easily cover the expense of internalizing it. It s Jira plus confluence mostly, it s not rocket science.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Documentation and collaboration for a client with hundreds of employees
I've had enough time with... Confluence... these products are so bad - so clunky, so slow, so much friction in the UI.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Documentation/collaboration (implied)
The problem is no one was ever fired for choosing Confluence. I can't imagine there is a single company that would keep using those products the moment some alternative exists.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Documentation/collaboration (implied industry standard)
the full Atlassian suite. Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Fish Eye, and Crucible all had the integrations turned on.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Presumably part of the integrated documentation and decision tracking system (implied by suite mention).
every single company with confluence was a disaster of unreadable garbage. one place got so bad the ops support had their own secret server of internal docs.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Internal company wiki
I gave it what I thought was a good title - Decent set of keywords - Slotted it in the appropriate category in the confluence tree. What follows is an hour of frantic searching both in confluence and my local notes.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Internal wiki/knowledge base for documenting solutions to problems
confluence for something else... it's all a mess, when you can use something like fossil.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: documentation/wiki
information was spread across so many different tools that integration was a moot point: Office365, Jira, Confluence, a separate ticketing tool...
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Information storage and documentation
the thing was relatively fast powerful vs say Confluence
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: comparison point for wikis/structured editing
It has a feature irritatingly overlayed that treats searches as AI questions the provided LLM will answer. I have to admit it often does a good job answering my effective question directly, vs me going through many semi-related pages.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Company wiki with an AI search/answer feature
Confluence used to be built on top of pretty standard plain wiki markup that could be edited without being forced into a bad visual editor... Not that I think Confluence was ever a great wiki, but at least having pages that were backed by some reasonable plaintext markup was much better than not having that.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Using as a wiki, editing pages with plaintext markup
Part of the problem is that I m always pasting documents into corporate portals (Confluence, Wiki s, Google Docs) and they don t always copy formatting in the way I d expect.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Pasting documents into corporate portals for collaboration/documentation
I know most people really want a hard-to-use wiki with a special markdown flavor to write up things that instantly go stale, never to be reviewed again.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Wiki for writing up documentation
The value of Confluence is when everyone uses it, so there’s one place to find info to answer questions like 'why the hell did we do it this way?'
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Company wiki for documenting decisions and centralizing information
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