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Confluence has always confused me. Every aspect of the product sucked when I used it several years ago.

There was little to no discoverability, it was slow as shit and the editing tools weren't that good. The integrations to their other products were at the time pretty much non-existing as well. Always felt like it was really basic which made me wonder how it could be so slow.

Any other wiki software were probably better. Mediawiki is free but people still paid for Confluence.

I don't get why people used it and still use it to this day. I dislike pretty much every of their products though, they all suck in my opinion and I have written several JIRA plugins so I had extensive experience with it.



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