What's New in Confluence Cloud – November 2019 Edition
What's New in Confluence Cloud – November 2019 Edition
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Deleted user December 9, 2019 edited
@Tom Crowley How did you find that? I have posted my thanks on the page for all the excellent developments during the year. I see no reason for there to be a December release; the developers and product teams are human people, too, so they will need at least a month of holiday to prepare for more exciting bug fixes to be applied over the next decade.
@[deleted] Purely by chance. I was looking for the December release details, and found that instead. It seems to have slipped the attention of many people. Went live on the 5th, eight likes, no comments. Shame...
@Tom Crowley -- Atlassian does not publish the "What's New..." article until the second week of the month. Oct 2019 -- published 2019-10-09, Nov 2019 -- published 2019-11-12
A couple more annoyances... While the commenting function works, you can no longer see the comments as soon as you start editing the page, which makes it very hard to incorporate any feedback they contain into the page, especially when there are many comments. You must do the following: read comment, remember comment, enter edit mode, make changes, publish page, read next comment, etc., unless I missed something, in which case it should be obvious. This is not a productive workflow (Google Docs is the model to replicate). Also, every time you resolve a comment, you get a popup that you have to dismiss, reminding you how to find resolved comments again later. Once is enough, or at least include a "do not show again" button.
@Jean-Michel Decombe The issue of being unable to review/address comments while editing has always been there. It's a limitation we simply live with. I'm so used to loading the same page into two different windows (one with the page open in read-only mode for reviewing and marking comments as resolved—and another with the same page open in edit mode to make the actual changes); I no longer give it a second thought.
It wasn't considered worth coding for the legacy editor, so I very much doubt it will be considered for the Fabric editor. There are far more valuable enhancements to be made. Emojis and animated GIFs are already covered, of course, so my guess is that we may even see animated page transitions somewhere down the line; you know, like in PowerPoint when the page spirals and slides off to one side while accompanied by a swooshing sound. Could that be considered, @Jessica Taylor? It would make working with Confluence feel more like a fun hobby rather than actual employment.
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