Atlassian

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Atlassian is also a bug factory, but I did not expect anything better of them. Each UI update they did to Confluence and Jira just made everything more confusing in the last 10 years.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-07-15

• “Atlassian has values "Open company, no bullshit" which they selectively use. "Open company, no bullshit" until it isn't.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “Our $100 million startup moved off Atlassian recently, and we couldn't be happier.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “What annoys me about Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence) is the long load times and terrible layout shifts”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-25

• “Atlassian has a great training set as they can see which Cloud installs work well”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-25

• “With the Atlassian MCP server hooked up to the same agent as my code it is fairly trivial to attach a Jira bug to a task and then prompt the AI to do whatever to the bug attached to this task.”

  POSITIVE · integration · Hacker News · 2026-05-14

• “Atlassian is particularly enraging, especially if you're dealing with setting up "new" accounts”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-05

• “former user of several Atlassian products , pass me a pitchfork”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-15

• “Atlassian's heavily-pushed AI couldn't even turn a Jira ticket number of Confluence into a clickable link”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-13

• “happily using Atlassian's MCP for this kind of thing just fine”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-11

• “Atlassian's garbage data structures. There's not much I can do to debug their awful MCP.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-10

• “Atlassian Rovo did not do a good job of not going to external sources when we had the answer in our existing internal docs”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-26

• “the single best organization I've ever been a part of for code archaeology, on a huge multi-decade project that spanned many different companies and agencies of the government, simply made diligent use of the full Atlassian suite”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-13

• “drastically downsized its dependence on Atlassian in the past month, we will be completely free in a few more. With the help of modern AI tools we've been able to replace their products with internal tools that are better tailored to our needs.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-12

• “tends to timeout with the Atlassian MCP when trying to do updates on large Confluence pages”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-05

• “atlassian really thinks you should only have one atlassian instance to auth against. Their mcp auth window takes you to a webpage where you can't see which thing you are authoring against forcing you to paste the login page url into an incognito window. Pretty half baked implementation.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-02

• “Atlassian pulled off on premise because companies would not update at all, would like to have all new features”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-02

• “Atlassian is busy relentlessly raising the price for self-host to push people into their cloud roach motel”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-01-21

• “Atlassian decided to add an AI summary at the top and intentionally disable the rest of the results until the AI summary has finished rendering fully. It's insane.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-21

• “Atlassian has been increasingly messing with Trello over the past couple years”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-27

• “loath Atlassian for continuing to add features I don't need while failing to fully develop features I do”

  NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-06

• “it's my 2nd used-and-disliked thing (right next to atlassian)”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-03-20

• “It integrates well with all the other Atlassian products like Jira or Confluence.”

  POSITIVE · integration · Hacker News · 2024-12-06

• “Atlassian has decided to switch this on desktop for their own WYSIWYG editor with all the usual problems, especially when pasting formatted text”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2024-10-18

• “We didn't even have compatible Atlassian instances, so even though we all used Jira and Confluence, nobody could see anyone else's.”

  NEGATIVE · integration · Hacker News · 2024-09-23