For those who are creating custom page headers for your Confluence spaces, I have found that 2000 x 350 px works pretty well. I did have to move some text closer to center, as it was getting cut off, so that size is not totally precise but a good starting point.
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March 21, 2024 edited
@Steven Kent@Steven Gold If you don't have the ability yet to center your title and don't see a full-width cover image, this means you haven't got the update yet. We are currently rolling out the feature to customers.
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March 22, 2024 edited
@Matthew East It appears that you don't have the update yet. You have simply clicked the "full-page" button (with the two little arrows in the top right above the cover image). You will have all the features together when the update is rolled out to you.
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April 1, 2024 edited
@Trent Murray Hi Trent, can you send an email ashea@atlassian.com with your instance URL and a screenshot of what you're seeing? I would like to look into your case further to see if we can find a workaround.
I agree with what many people seem to be saying on here - this was a big change to something that didn't really need fixing. All the 1100 x 140 pixel banner images on my pages, which were displaying perfectly before, are now being heavily cropped, displaying much larger than they were before, and are visibly pixelated. I hope a solution can be found soon.
Sooooo...on 21 March you advised " If you don't have the ability yet to center your title and don't see a full-width cover image, this means you haven't got the update yet. We are currently rolling out the feature to customers."
Now there is a hover over action for the title and banner option, can we shift everything up to get rid of that annoying white space between the formatting tools and page tools:
For people using laptops, you want to maximise the workspace area to create content.
On first seeing the bigger header image, I assumed it was a rendering problem caused by a poor internet connection. Then I genuinely assumed it was a bug and raised it with Atlassian support. How could I not? Our pages looked different, flawed, and we could do nothing about it. But it is neither a bug nor a feature, it is a problem.
A feature is something I can choose. This new design was forced on us. We use header images on the homepages of our spaces. Some of them are shared with our clients. A lot of work went into those pages, making sure they fit completely on a laptop screen. Now the bigger header images push crucial information below the fold.
I cannot understand how such a change is pushed just like that, by unilateral decision. One might see it as an improvement but at the very least, Atlassian should have left our existing pages well alone. Not doing so shows a lack of respect for our work. How can they think they know better what our Confluence pages should look like? Why would they think it is their place to make that decision?
Now they say we can vote for the old header images. I won't be doing that. They want social media likes before addressing their mistake, won't return what they took away unless we petition them? I will not play that game. Instead I will deal with the mess this has caused for us: Remove all header images and emojis from our pages. In fact I will get rid off all fancy features in Confluence. They are just too much at risk of being subjected to Atlassian's definition of improvement.
By reducing our pages to what is necessary I can hopefully diminish the exposure to the volatile environment that Confluence seems to have become. And it will reduce the cost of switching if we decide to go with another tool and provider.
This f-d up ALL of my pages, and now I'll need to schedule a week to redo every single image on every page. Perhaps if you made it selectable it would be OK, but as it is you BROKE EVERYTHING on existing pages.
Well, Atlassian seems silent on this snafu, so the only fix I've found is removing all banner images from my sites - which I did. Looks a little more drab, but at least my site title is no longer a giant, distorted and cropped image.
@Arshia Elahi This change was unnecessary and has made all of our high quality fuzzy and unusable. Our company is in design and none of our designers have found an appropriate resolution to make the images not look awful. Please either roll back this change or give us the space-wide option to use the old style.
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