Atlassian very much do use Jira cloud. Source: I worked there for 10 years. Not apologising for it's performance however.

Any inights why the performance often varies between a Model T Ford and a glacial boulder?

I mean, presumably it's subject to the two curses of modern software:-

1. Unless major customers are actively closing their accounts due to the poor performance, improving performance isn't a priority.

2. The people who pay for it aren't the people who use it, so the performance can get very, very bad before customers start closing their accounts.

What a weird time to enforce British rules for acronyms.

JIRA stands for JIRA Isn't Really Awesome.

JIRA Is Really Awful.

True, but I try to stay positive.

I always say Janky Irritating React App.

My chucklebone made a guffaw. Thanks!

But what does the “JIRA” in “JIRA Isn’t Really Awesome” stand for?

Same thing as the “GNU” in “GNU’s Not Unix” — it’s a recursive acronym

> Even Atlassian doesn't use Jira cloud.

That would explain a lot.

> Btw it's not "JIRA".

When did they change this? I'm fairly certain[1] it used to be JIRA.

[1]: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira061

In 2013, to be specific.

That's no longer the case - a large portion of teams are now using cloud variants of Confluence/Jira.

Everytime I'm using JIRA and I type JIRA and it automatically corrects it to Jira, I hit Ctrl+Z to undo the autocorrect.

Case in point: https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/ Look how snappy it is!