This issue is fixed in Confluence 5.9 and fix is not back-ported to older versions, that's why it is reproducible in 5.6.1. Version 6 also contains the fix, so you shouldn't have this issue after upgrading Confluence.

I see this marked as resolved, but still having this issue on our instance (5.6.1). We will be upgrading next month to version 6. Is this issue fixed?

We have a very large user base as well and will be upgrading to 5.8 later this year. We really need this functionality to work as it is a big complaint from our users and makes our custom dashboard almost unusable.

I work at another 50,000+ seat instance where this is an issue. We have folks distributed across the country who use Confluence for business process training and documentation on an instance with hundreds of work spaces.

Atlassian team - please expedite a fix for this issue! It is causing us to not be able to use your tool in the way it was designed and have to come up with less functional workarounds. Also - can you please update your documentation on the favorite feature to notate this fairly sever limitation for large installed bases?

Thanks for those who've commented on this issue.

This does look like a potential candidate issue for our Enterprise team, however we currently have a (very) full roadmap working on our new clustered offering, so I can't give any sort of timeline for it. My initial thoughts are that we obviously need to first assess the performance implications of having a limit more like 50,000 you suggest michael.volkmar, as we don't want to solve one problem by giving you another!

It's great to hear from people what the underlying problems this causes people are (e.g.: the custom dashboard creation Michael mentioned) so we can consider the best solutions to those, which may or may not be simply increasing the limit.

Currently we see two major issues with this limitation:

1. One page cannot be bookmarked by more than 500 users.

And with a much higher relevance:

2. As confluence uses the same feature for space subscriptions we cannot use our news concept anymore.

As I already said we use confluence as a corporate intranet with special spaces containing the latest news for corporate or countries.
We use space subscriptions in order to provide a personalized dashboard. That means the users go an subscripb the spaces they want to see on their personal dashboard.

As it is now only 500 users can subscribe one space. But we have spaces that should be subscribed by all users (50.000) or by the people from one country (e.g. 10.000).

Therefore the described bug prevents us from using the system as it was planned.

Please give me a short status on what happens next here.

Atlassian: Any progress or comments here?

Really disappointing.
We have 44.000 users and only 500 of them are able to bookmark the cantina menu

its not even assigned yet

we have 3000 users and our workaround is to build the dashboard manually with the most popular spaces as static links

We are the customer Martin mentioned.
Is there any progress ?