Confluence

FIRST-HAND READS

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

• “trying to automatically move anything out of confluence feels less like coding and more like a digital exorcism”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-06

• “a great brain dump + TODO list tracker via custom API + MCP into confluence, using confluence pages as the app state”

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

• “Every single input field they have in Confluence and Jira is misbehaving or broken”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-20

• “If any half-competent developer tried to write his first search engine it would be better than that of Confluence. It's unbelievable.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-23

• “I love confluence because it has the worst search engine I've ever used”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-22

• “You can't copy and paste markdown, nor can you use it in the native way in confluence”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-17

• “Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Fish Eye, and Crucible all had the integrations turned on”

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

• “Not that I think Confluence was ever a great wiki, but at least having pages that were backed by some resonable plaintext markup was much better than not having that.”

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

• “Confluence articles load very fast now. They have also added Live documents which is a very welcome addition.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-12

• “find jira and confluence much less annoying now that I just made a claude skill for each of them and now I don't have to interact with their UI very often anymore”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · 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

• “My favourite is the confluence integration though, as I like to record a lot of worklog-style information in there that I would previously write down as markdown files. It's nicer to have these in Confluence as then they are accessible no matter what repo I am working in, what region I am working in, or what branch or feature I'm working on.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-05

• “our engineering team was juggling Confluence for design docs and Lucidchart, draw.io for diagrams every single day. The diagrams would drift out of sync with the actual docs within weeks. New engineers joining the team had no single place to understand the system. And we were paying separately for both tools just to do one job”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-02

• “It's pretty bad at working with confluence it just eats tokens”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-02

• “the results from Confluence via an MCP-powered search are remarkably good”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-01

• “better to edit/read in a richer editor like Confluence which has better support for interactive widgets, expand zones, code blocks, etc. It's also been better at navigating a tree of documents.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-07

• “What we pay for JIRA and Confluence would never offset fact that we pay and it works, NOT A SINGLE EMPLOYEE CARES as they have their job to do”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-02-02

• “The on-prem self-host Confluence I've used is still pretty snappy and pleasant to use and without throwing an absurd amount of resources at it”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-01-21

• “I almost exclusively favor Confluence Cloud. It's very responsive for me.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-01-21

• “Confluence, at least in west EU, is offensively slow. The thought of adding a page is sufficiently demoralizing that it's easier to update an existing page and save yourself minutes of request time outs.”

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

• “Some of the internal wiki was migrated directly to Confluence (and lost all formatting and internal links in the process)”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-12-27

• “Confluence web editor has a thousand options but no option to comfortably edit text”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-12-22

• “Used to do all this stuff with Confluence and a bunch of copy-paste. No more.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-11-28

• “My company's Confluence is flooded with half assed documentation from several different dev teams that either loosely matches or doesn't match at all the behavior or configuration of their apps”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-11-26

• “Jira/Confluence fall over pretty fast and people end up juggling a pile of side spreadsheets and slides just to keep things aligned”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-11-26