"As we continue to move towards a cloud future together, new server app sales and installs are no longer available for customers. You can update app version via Atlassian Marketplace until the end of support for server on Feb 15, 2024"
I came to the site today to buy Flow Board add-on, to add to a personal-use Confluence server instance. I had seen Flow Board on my work instance, and thought 'Cool, I've been looking for a nice Kanban board for home use.'
Well, AS WITH ALL GOOD THINGS, THE END HAS COME. So I can't get Flow Board. No Atlassian server product licenses are available, and everything has a high cost, both for Cloud and Data Center.
I suspected this would happen when I first bought Confluence for my home--that it wasn't going to be worth the effort to enter data because the day would come, sooner or later, that it would simply be taken away... (At the time I bought a license I was shocked at the low price--that should have tipped me off!) So everyone who is using 10-user server licenses will bump into problems with aging versions, no access to add-ons, and expiration, and then have to go back to some other open source tool, and have to RE-ENTER all their data again.
Makes me not want to pay for software, just to be forced to re-pay again and again, or have to painstakingly migrate to another platform.
