Where did the diffs go in Confluence page-changed emails?

[tmccormack]

I watch a number of pages in our wiki space, and I keep tabs on changes by reading the diffs that are included in the "someone updated this page" emails.

But as of a week or two ago, the diffs are gone! I just get "Alice updated this page" and a link to the page, but no indication of what was actually added or removed. This is a significant downgrade in functionality, as a lot of the edits are small and unimportant (so I'm not going to click through on every single email) but others are not (and so I'm going to miss some important updates).

I didn't change any settings, and I can't find anything relevant in the settings pages. Was this feature removed?

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@tmccormack Do you just have a link to the page or also a View changes link?

When someone leaves a comment, I just get a link to the page, but, when someone makes changes, I also get a View changes link. Selecting this link shows the changes made (like when you compare versions in the Version history). It's not as quick as just seeing the changes within the email, but easier to render in Confluence than putting it in the email, especially if the changes are extensive.

[tmccormack]

It looks different for me:

You'd think that "Go to page history" would go to the (full) page history, but it actually goes to the diff for the relevant change -- which I imagine is the same as the "View changes" link in your email.

[marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-]

I believe Atlassian changed this because rendering diffs became too hard after changes how Confluence content are stored and rendered.

[tmccormack]

I had a feeling something like this might be the case. I'm hoping to either get confirmation of that or an indication that this is a bug they're trying to fix.

[James Stuart]

I've lost the diffs since circa 6th October - really disappointing to not be able to track the updates through emails without having to go to individual pages and wait for diffs to load.