History view for new editing experience pages not colouring changes appropriately

[Andrew McDonald]

I've noticed that when looking at the history for a page created with the "new" editing experience, the colours previously used to denote additions and deletions simply don't show up. It's very difficult to actually see the changes in a page. Newly added text simply looks the same as existing text, and deleted text has a strikethrough which just looks like text already formatted that way.

Is this a known issue? Such version differencing has long been a problem with Confluence (for instance, edit any cell of a table and the whole thing goes into the notification email, not just the cell edited). Will we see proper improvements here soon, something like GitHub or any other diff view?

[Shannon S · Accepted solution]

Hello Andrew,

Thank you for raising this! There is a known bug at the moment that causes the color comparisons not to appear:

• CONFCLOUD-69883 Page's Versions Comparison tool issue

Unfortunately, there's no known workaround. Click This affects my team, and you'll be updated when there is any progress on a fix.

Thanks again, and take care.

Shannon

[Andrew McDonald]

Thanks Shannon. In common with other tracked issues I've been pointed at recently, I see this ticket has been open for over a year now. I'm a little concerned at how long bugs are sticking around for... hopefully this can be fixed soon.