Confluence Data Center/Server Reviews

For people who use Confluence with their teams, this is not a useful app. Though the desktop browser experience of Confluence is buggy and the mobile browser is poor, ConfluenceDataCenterServer omits almost everything useful about Confluence:
- it does not update pages in ConfluenceDataCenterServer when server pages are edited
- you can’t use any of the page templates to create new pages
- page editing lets you enter text, lists, and bold/italic only. No @ or [ or // references, no linking at all, inserting tables, adding pictures, indenting, adding table rows, etc. Even on an iPad with a keyboard. It’s useless for taking meeting notes.
- Most widgets on pages don’t work: search boxes, Task Canvas, Gilphy graphics, etc. everything is replaced with a “view desktop version” button that takes you out to the browser, where you’ll end up staying. At that point why have an app?

They say this is the start and more will come. Sadly this is a long way from being a useful collaboration tool. If all you need is a quick look at your favorite pages that other people update and you can comment on, it might work for you.

This applies to the web version and ConfluenceDataCenterServer alike: Confluence is a complete UX mess. The WYSIWYG editor is the deranged little brother of the excellent Google Docs, many buttons in Confluence are on the wrong place in the wrong flow and the apps have different features from the web version. Generally Confluence is the pinnacle of slowness and patience is needed to prevent smashing your keyboard or mobile device through the window.
I absolutely hate, hate, hate Confluence but unfortunately in its goals it’s the best we have, and it happens to be our standard tool.
Atlassian must have a very lazy or ineffective group of people, more interested in raising prices of their cloud subscriptions and not providing quality software.

It’s not even good at being able to keep us logged in. Especially when there ja a single Signon. It’s just awful that we need togo through painful process every single time to login. Why can’t it just remember the credentials like the browser does.

When writing pages, the fonts mess it up so much I almost always have to go to HTML editor on desktop to fix it.

It is just hard to get pages that we saved or were editing before. Not one thing I find useful or properly working in ConfluenceDataCenterServer.

I went thru a whole mess of things to expose my atlassian stack through my firewall. In the end I have access to everything behind a reverse proxy. I can get to it from my iPad Pro with chrome just fine.

I then fired up ConfluenceDataCenterServer and wanted to see what great things I got with it...nothing really. I’m completely disappointed.

The rendering is just like mobile view, except I can’t switch to desktop view. It lays out the data different...not very good for on the road updates with any formatting.

After about 15 minutes of poking around, I decided I have everything I need using just chrome.

Deleting ConfluenceDataCenterServer to save space...

If this is a iteration of a bigger idea, then tell me. But if so, your MVP is off. Tell me when you have something I’d use.

Rene’

As of early 2019 an Enterprise version compatible with ConfluenceDataCenterServer has now been released, and it seems to work so far. I hope in the future the requirements from ConfluenceDataCenterServer side do not outpace the Enterprise releases, particularly as companies may not be the quickest to upgrade to latest released versions!

I wish we could save multiple instances and switch between the two. I also wish there was a way to browse anonymously. Still kind of limited to the stock page elements, but I’m sure developers will start updating their add-ins to work with ConfluenceDataCenterServer soon enough.

In a meeting people were discussing a design issue that was documented on a confluence page. I was able to open the confluence page in the confluence app using link in my iPhone email and make a few edits real quick. Interface was clean.

Would be great for this to be more for editing (especially on an iPad) in addition to viewing.

As far as reviewing goes, supporting deep linking would go a long way.

Love the way your presentation of information and user interface. It enables me to keep informed with updates. I can easily add comments and view changes in real time.

Confluence is an amazing product but the mobile app needs important features such as uploading files for example and other features which enables it more useful.

Setup a confluence server at home, love it! Found ConfluenceDataCenterServer, so much nicer than the phone website version.

Great documentation center for my homelab.

Thanks!

This is an app that people have been waiting for long time. In general, it works and is pretty good for a mobile app. But a lot of features are still gimped

Why is confluence mobile completely useless?
One example:
Pagetree doesn’t work, so I can’t see the subpages for any page. This is a key feature and one my team uses all the time.
Would be better to not have an app at all.

I only installed it so I can search and it doesn't have a search function!

Seamless integration with our server.

Has an icon for a bullet list but you can’t increment and decrement. You can’t mention others using @ and can’t add action items with checkboxes. Severely lags behind confluence cloud.

Absolutely unfinished app from an IT giant. Crashes almost in any occasion.

I don’t understand how this is going to help us with our job. We have had no training on this so who knows if I am doing it right.

Good bare bones starter app. Look forward to the upgraded versions that are surely coming. Thanks

Still at least 2 years behind other software apps

Setup a confluence server at home, love it! Found ConfluenceDataCenterServer, so much nicer than the phone website version.

Great documentation center for my homelab.

Thanks!

Enter the server url. Ok. Then enter credentials, app crashes. Compatibility issue with the latest version of Confluence? Who knows. App doesn’t specify requirements. Just a crash. Get it together Atlassian!

The only thing I can get out of ConfluenceDataCenterServer is that there’s an unspecified error. All the time. It’s completely unusable.