We deserve better than Confluence and Notion

Re:We deserve better than Confluence and Notion by azalemeth on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:27PM (#28672730)

I hate Confluence infinitely less than I hate Sharepoint -- which is also mentioned in the article. Both of them market themselves as filling the same corporate overlord niche role. One of them even vaguely succeeds.

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Re:We deserve better than Confluence and Notion by prepend on Monday September 27, 2021 @01:49PM (#28673810)

There’s a few products that I feel bad for the devs and people associated with. I really feel bad for SharePoint devs because it doesn’t seem like it should be as horrible as it is.

Like everything simple (let’s make a wiki tied to AD) is twisted around to make it complex and confusing so it’s lock-in forever.

The per user cost for SharePoint is like $100-200/year. Think about that for a minute. That’s really high for a wiki. And cheap for an enterprise knowledge workflow. But it sucks so hard if you want users to create, collaborate, and share info.

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Re:We deserve better than Confluence and Notion by CoastalCoder on Monday September 27, 2021 @03:38PM (#28675087)

Not disrespecting your pain, but I'm guessing you never had to do serious work in Lotus Notes.

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Re:We deserve better than Confluence and Notion by prepend on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @12:10PM (#28684434)

Good point. The last time I used Lotus Notes was 2010. I hated it, but it seemed to be constrained to its e-mail nightmare world. SharePoint, since it’s nominally web, gets stuck into everything.

Comically, SharePoint makes me tolerate Confluence and Salesforce more.

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