What's New in Confluence Cloud – June 2021 Edition

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📱 Mobile: Add tables, panels, images & more

Brand new editing capabilities on the mobile app, just like you asked for! Add or edit tables, change panel colors, add dividers and expands, pick a code snippet language, arrange media and more! See it all in action

👀 Preview a page from the pagetree

Now, when you hover over the page tree you get a page preview of the contents. Explore now

⏱ See your macro edits in real-time

Explore the new, better way to find, insert, and edit macros that power up your pages. Read on

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[Mohammed Amine]

Interesting article

[Arthur Mack]

Love some of the new features, keep them coming

Art

[Dean Capp]

Can we provide real solutions to major bugs e.g. 1/2 the page wasted on the right hand panel that you can't hide rather than this stuff?

See https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Hide-right-panel-in-issue-view/qaq-p/1500892?utm_source=atlcomm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immediate_general_reply&utm_content=topic 

Why was it even built like this? 

[James Lamb]

Please take a pause on new features and optimize the speed. 

[Matt Holmes]

I would pay good money to see the analytics on how many people are using Confluence on mobile devices vs standard PCs.  12 years of Atlassian administration and I have yet to meet or even hear about a single person accessing this tool on a mobile device, yet the new editor has been a cut-down and largely dysfunctional tool for the better part of two years.  Who are these mythical mobile users???

[rochaib]

@Matt Holmes 

I personally use confluence on mobile quite often. Not much for editing (given the new features, I might consider it) but more for reading, sharing and discussing within the page's comments. Not sure which mythology I'd fit into, though :)

[Arif Banduwale]

Thats a very good job Team Atlassian...

:-)

[Saša Rosić-Milinković]

So when are we getting some basic features like changing fonts and font sizes? And when is the new editor gonna have at least 50% of the image and table editing features the old one had?

[Nicola Martin]

@Matt Holmes, I use it a lot, but sometimes you have to be really careful. Making edits on mobile devices can ruin a page when you come back to look at it on a laptop/PC.

[Branka H]

Thank you for the new features. I would appreciate improved tables with filtering, fixing rows, columns when scrolling etc. 

[Brandon Nolet]

Okay but when are we going to get macros that don't break ordered lists?

[Jordi Paradis]

Pages preview is useless and a bit annoying.

[James Lamb]

Please bring back fixed-width images. If I'm documenting an A/B test, I really need the two images to be the same size, not some "as-close-as-I-can-get-by-dragging-the-table-cell nonsense"

[Miriam Hopton]

This is great - thank you for providing updates and the enhancements! LOVE IT ALL! The video is helpful as well.

[Laura Bier]

Some of these look cool.  And looking forward to an improved table editing experience and bring the panel macro back (hopefully in the near future!)!

[Magnus Klingenberg]

give me level 1 :D

[Arslan Ihsan]

Looking good, and love the way Atlassian is growing :)

[Nathalie Lussier]

Yay previewing pages in the sidebar is going to be super helpful for people who aren't as familiar with all of the content on our account, thank you!

[Gina Palombit]

I got excited for a minute when I saw there were updates. I thought they had added panels back like they were in the Legacy editor, with ability to enter Hex codes for color. What a let down. 

[Matt Holmes]

@rochaibIt's a legitimate question I posed, if indeed Atlassian's user base is largely mobile, or that's a growing audience they want to position for, that's understandable.  As as administrator, I want to know what to implement in the companies I work for. 

At this point in time, if I'm approached for information management tools I cannot recommend Confluence if they are a desktop-only organization.  That's a big change from just 2-3 years ago when it was a no-brainer to recommend Atlassian products (especially cloud.)  If they were using both desktop and a variety of mobile devices, I'd still be reluctant as the current offering for desktop is crippled and the mobile offering is essentially in beta.   The user experience is all over the map - I know, because it's a daily challenge to address all the bizarre quirks of a constantly shifting product (or suite of products.)