I totally agree with @Kurtis Kiesel,
that ad is now totally misleading.
And actually at our company we thought is a cool feature.

You should take down the advertising that you have here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpSfXkUTSSc

My upper management is upset that the feature is not available after trying out the product.

Guess this page is to get rid of dissatisfaction - but writing about my dissatisfaction does not really satisfy me; does anyone know, if there is already a feature request to get back the functionality as described above by @Peter Rohner?

"2.) The ability to manage tasks that are assigned to you, and add new ones on the fly without having to "edit a page" - again, like what was available in versions up to 5.4. in the "work box""

I added this requirement here:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-35183
Feel free to vote

Light always comes with shade

You're welcome Ralph,

All the best.

I really hope Atlassian gets Confluence back on board with looking after users. I'll be glad to jump back over but there's a few things they need to sort out first. When they start asking non on demand users what they want, need etc, then I'll give them more feedback, until then, I simply don't have time to waste trying to push their product.

Thanks Rick,

That's actually very helpful. You're right that it may be a big jump, but maybe I can stand up a WordPress server and make it available and hopefully provide some of the missing functionality. It may have the affect of migrating some users away from Confluence, but I can cross that bridge when we get to it.

Thanks again.

Hi Ralph Avery,

As hinted, I'm in a very small business. I'm honestly not sure if Wordpress would suit someone between sizes of Confluence. It's a big jump to be honest - if you've already established lots of info, lots of users and they know how to use the system, then it's a hard decision.

I was new to this company and they had no web-based documentation, so it was easy for me to change. The other company I worked for had the same thing in which I implemented Confluence, and they still use it. I doubt anyone there still maintains it though in terms of having an administrator.

Essentially it's an Ubuntu server with PHP, MySQL and Apache. Wordpress is served on this basic box.

I generated a timesheet system (contacts form 7, with contact form db to store, not just send the data). Then to-do-list which has categories and allows for users to add and assign tasks, priorities etc and have completion dates, email the users etc (quite basic, but better than having the tasks completely ripped out and not spoken of again like in this instance).

Other than that, just basic pages for each of our clients with info as needed. Comments section for quick adding of information (another thing that the personal tasks were used for while on site).

I use simple membership to lock down the site from public users. I also use BackupWP which makes it very easy to backup the database, and plugins, uploads etc. I sync that to Dropbox and folder which is sync'd in turn to another cloud backup. I also rsync this off to a NAS.

I hope this gives you pointers.

Hi Rick William,

Any chance you'd be willing to share any specifics on how you set up the Wordpress to serve your purposes? We are currently between sizes on Confluence and considering alternatives before making the rather steep jump to the much higher license count. Overall we've been happy with Confluence, and thought we made the right choice, but we've decided that we may need to be looking for an alternative.

Well put Kerry.

I would just like to say to Atlassian that I was VERY impressed when I first started using it, I was harping on to everyone and anyone I know in IT, project management, anyone really that could benefit from this but now as I am so fed up, I've actually decommissioned Confluence entirely and customised Wordpress to suit our needs better (I was using both, but after realising our comments were being ignored here, Wordpress won out).

I started getting sick of documentation not aligning with new versions as Kerry suggested whereby something used to be offered and suddenly no mention of it, not even to say it has been removed. I couldn't afford to upgrade and spend half a day backing up, restoring, testing, then implementing. Now with Wordpress I can actually backup, upgrade, test and if something breaks, restore within about an hour.

I realise that a lot of people like myself don't pay very much for Confluence if we have a small number of users, but what Atlassian staff need to realise is that we are often the people who promote your products for free. If you can't keep us happy, or at least provide real, valid reasons for removing functionality that was working, then you've not only lost existing clients, but many potential clients too. Suffice to say, I no longer promote Confluence as I find it more time consuming managing and updating than managing a full blown MS server.

I completely agree with all of the comments above.

As a company we don't want to use multiple tools to manage our projects. It's much easier to view group and personal tasks in one place. I would strongly urge Atlassian to reconsider the position on this feature and reintroduce it. I'm hoping as a great software development company they listen to their users feedback and implement a true time saving feature. I get that Confluence is a collaboration tool but seriously guys how can you justify the removal of a feature like this by saying "we want to focus on collaboration" when managing your own tasks (and therefore time) is all part of being able to effectively manage your collaboration efforts with others. That doesn't make much sense.

I would also advise that if you're going to remove a feature you should also remove the documentation (or at least update to say it's no longer offered) so that when people like me go looking for this type of feature we don't spend half an hour trying to figure out why I can't see this critical tool in the notifications area.

I would also like to encourage Atlassian to rethink their position on this.

As a product manager I understand that you have to set up your core features. But in this case you guys already have been there and most of the people using this do not require any more great features. Instead when they request them you can direct them to Jira or other tools as well but for this easy tracking of shared work and personal work it is too much overhead to establish an additional tool and obvisiously you do NOT have your task at one hand any more (which was kind of one of the key messages of the 5.5 blog?).

So please reconsider this decision!