What just happened to Confluence Cloud?

Steven F Behnke

I run a lot of instances so I visit a lot of vendor Confluences. 

1. It's horrifyingly annoying that I get this same UNSKIPPABLE modal for each and every dang Confluence I visit. Why can't I skip it? Why can't I escape the modal? Who the hell approved this? The customer base has complained openly about these stupid unskippable "what's new" modals. Jira did it and people got pissed (now you can skip it.) CONFLUENCE ALREADY DID THIS MULTIPLE TIMES, including forcing users to WATCH an entire space. It's as if Atlassian doesn't actually use the tools internally anymore. 
2. I literally cannot close the modals anymore. The final Get Started button seemingly does nothing what-so-ever. Specifically I am on bob swift's site, I see this error:

   Access to Font at 'https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/s/6.1.0/_/download/resources/com.atlassian.auiplugin:aui-experimental-iconfont/fonts/atlassian-icons.ttf' from origin 'https://master-advanced-tables.bobswift-addons.com' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://master-advanced-tables.bobswift-addons.com' is therefore not allowed access. 

   And I can't close the dialog. I guess it's time to treat it like spam and write a script to remove it.

Shannon S

Hi Steven,

We do have a feature request in Cloud to be able to disable the Welcome Module, since in Server it requires you to disable a System Add-on, which is not possible in Cloud:

• CONFCLOUD-41550

Please vote on that to help show your interest, and comment on the case with your feedback. If you watch it, you will be updated of any progress.

As for the issue on Bob Swift's site, I haven't seen this particular error before. Could you let us know exactly how you replicate the error? Did you have to sign up for a new account?

Regards,

Shannon