Here's an idea: why don't you address a 15-Year-old request that you've already had deployed in the non-cloud version of Confluence CONFCLOUD-2814: Copy page hierarchy (including attachments) with over 1,460 Votes and 585 Watchers?
That would show that you are actually paying attention to your users.
For speed, why don't you use caching or a CDN to cache common images CSS or JS or anything that can be cached? CDNs have been around for decades and yet your site is slow because either you are not caching what can be cached, closer to the end-users, or your application servers are overloaded or your database servers are not efficient. In any case, you should get a CDN provider to help at least the end-users.
I agree, we need faster page loads of content. When you stack up Confluence against Notion for page loads, Notion wins by a mile. The UX re-organization is not what is high-value to me.
Still not willing to switch to the new editor until you bring back the image formatting from the old editor. Maybe I abuse the drop shadow feature, but there's not really a better way to break up large blocks of text.
Confluence Editor still has a long way to go. While Table editing has improved a lot, it still doesnt feel smooth. For eg Copying from plain text wont auto format bullets, copy and past from markup languages are not properly recognized, forcing to reformat again.
Above all, an MS Excel type of Table Editor would be a really useful feature. None of the excel type plugins are good and coz of this we are using Microsoft Office, which is far better.
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April 23, 2020 edited
@Harish Vaidyanathan thank you for your comment. My name is Daniel Ayele and I'm a PM on the Confluence Cloud team. I'm happy to share that we're actively working on a feature to allow customers to create and view inline comments in the editor. Stay tuned for more on this in the next few months.
Just want to call out how great many of these new templates are.
As teams move towards more modern ways of working particularly in virtual environments, OKRs for clarifying team and company goals will become increasingly important.
My experience I guess runs counter to most people here, in that I find new Jira issue view and new Confluence editor have resulted in considerable speed boosts to page load times.
Confluence has gone backwards in terms of performance (Slow!) and buggy. I have had multiple instance were edits ware locked up or lost. Especially when using the Code Block macro, had ALL code blocks magically empty without doing so :(
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April 23, 2020 edited
Hi @Mike Bowen, I'm the PM for Confluence templates. Thanks for your feedback. The templates are free and available to every single Confluence customer. When you click on 'Create,' the templates are already there in the create dialog. Let us know if you are still unable to find them.
Please improve tables in Confluence. We work with a lot of tables, most span a single page. Current UX with tables is really frustrating. Please allow us to create Confluence Spaces from Jira with an automation/post function that returns the URL of the newly created space.
Hey @Dilani Kahawala - who's the PM for making Confluence and JIRA faster and more responsive? Have a word, tell them to pull their finger out and produce some noticeable improvements for your clients.
I am also not very impressed. I mean it is fine, it is nice, but we are still fighting with Excerpts, page includes or localisations. We mostly create documentation for our software on confluence, then export it via API, apply lokalise.co translations, and publish in PHP Laravel. For example user/role/group management system seems to me so complicated, that it is out of our hands. Etc etc
Here for the praise! I've been using Confluence across multiple companies and a multitude of projects since 2011. Every update has made it easier to use, adding and refining features that help me organize documentation to better communicate both design and production guidance with my teams.
There's always more work to be done, but I trust that Confluence will continue to grow and evolve, and will only get better with time.
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I saw you comment. Well that is fantastic news. I guess the post above wasn't very clear as there was a link to the Templates page where one had to sign up to the templates.
I have opened up the template page within Confluence and there are indeed a lot of extra templates available. :-)
I'm a decade old user of Confluence (circa 2010), and this latest iteration is so lame I don't even understand where you are going, who you think your users are, what they are doing with your product, especially when they are moving unwillingly to the cloud stuff?
What was a pleasure to use, a great enabler for thoughtful and quality documentation in teams seems to be now competing with the fast but lowly thinking mode of instant messaging like Slack, discord or (sight!) MS Teams!
Could this shift be the mirror of a new product manager's generation cognitive bias?
That's probably ok in terms of business model, after investing so much money in marketing analytics fairies you probably have no choice but to follow your own "insights".
But do not pretend that Confluence is still a content management system, this has become a lie by the day.
I miss the good old markdown editor with its fast preview for power users, and the simple but rich set of macros for beginners: This was a clever way to smooth the learning curve that make people willing to make better documentation with time, spend more time thinking about content and less fighting with the tool.
...and fix Confluence. There are so many areas where Confluence just does not work, and yet you plough on adding "Wonderful new features"
Try this:
Add the new "Design Component Template"
Save it
Export out to PDF
It doesn't have a clue how to handle Emojis in the document. The very first line:
:seedling: Component basics
I get depressed every time I see Atlassian announce their wonderful new features, which have not been thought through properly, not been tested, don't work, and evidently no one is looking at fixing all the other non-working features.
Jesus Christ!! - you specialise in software project management tools, yet cannot manage your own software project management!!!
One of the biggest issues I've seen with confluence aside from the aforementioned speed, is the lack of connected pages. i.e. If a create a page from a template, then I edit the template, pages started from that template are not affected, or the changes are not inherited. This means I have to go back and add in a field to like 40 old pages manually. This is not productive and needs to be addressed.
Wow. So many haters. To everyone at Confluence and Atlassian I love your products. Confluence is obviously going through changes to become an even better platform and I love the changes. We implemented Confluence a few years back to improve our capture of documentation and the team love using it, which means we gather lots of great documentation that down the line pays us back in so much saved time.
I am also currently looking at Jira Service Desk also and am very excited by what I am seeing.
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