in the case of Confluence, at some point you can't position the cursor with the keyboard, without skipping over entire sections. But once you get to a certain level of formatting complexity, Confluence and every other web-based WYSIWYG editor starts soiling the bed. Personally I've always been frustrated with the WYSIWYG editor.īut then again, I've yet to see any product or plugin for any platform, successfully crack the web-based WYSIWYG editor nut. We've been long-time users of Confluence. The alternative is to be whatever you like and focus your effforts on trapping users.Ĭonfluence actually were ahead of the times, and then actively shifted to become hermitlike and scared. Then keeping at that s the only 'stickiness' you need. If your product is reliably good & high quality. They have become low quality and thus fearful. Including the 'answers' or 'responses', which are nothing short of 'gaslighting'. with many hundreds of disappointed / puzzled / angry users are just amazing to read. they have ways of making issues seem to disappear, which are really about renaming and reclassifying things in their JIRA system. When I say this, I've made many polite requests on their supportbases. They are treating the product as more of an advanced webpage authoring tool. The tribe working at Atlassian these days appear to have gone the 'Slack' route and are uninterested in the old 'wiki' (quick) concept. Now they just don't care - they want to lock as many people in so they can impose anything they like on their userbase, rather than being a part of the marketplace and the cloud competitive ethos. These aren't small harmless omissions in Enterprise wiki software. I championed and introduced Confluence into many sites as part of Documenation projects, centered on Markdown.īut their once-'wiki' doesn't even support link-by-name anymore, nor placeholder links. Ridiculous thing is Confluence used to be great for this. You can see how feature requests are considered in our New Features Policy. Markdown converter in Confluence does not handle Indentation correctly.You also have the option of adding a Marketplace app - Markdown Macro for Confluence is a free one, but you can browse apps specific to Confluence Server and Data Center in addition.Īs for native support in self-hosted Confluence, we're collecting feedback at our feature requests for:Īlong with a bug that has since been resolved as of Confluence 6.14 and up: With self-hosted Confluence, this can be done OOTB with the Markup macro (select Insert > Markdown from the drop-down). We don't yet offer a plain text markdown editor so you can edit in markdown, but we're tracking interest on our feature request, Edit in Markdown with the new editor for Confluence Cloud. You can see more on supported markdown in Confluence's keyboard shortcuts. Our Confluence Cloud editor (sites hosted on ) supports markdown on the fly, so text with markdown formatting that is pasted directly into the editor will be converted. I'm adding some clarification on what's possible OOTB today with Confluence. Hi there, appreciate everyone's input on this.
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