I like that this suggestion has been addressed. Unfortunately it's not enough as admins also get a welcome screen without any possibility to opt-out and therefore are forced to create a new, potentially unnecessary, space.

To address that point I've just created an additional suggestion CONFSERVER-58942.

In 6.14 we've simplified the onboarding for new users.

New users joining your Confluence site will no longer be prompted to upload a profile picture or watch spaces when they first log in. We’ve replaced the three-step onboarding wizard with a simple 'Welcome to Confluence' modal, so they can get to know your site before deciding which spaces to watch.

Thanks for this!

A fix for this issue is available to Server and Data Center customers in Confluence 6.14.0
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Hello,

Thanks to the folks voting on this ticket and raising this issue. We’re investigating some changes to this experience - if you’d like to preview and feedback on the designs in progress, drop me an email at: confluence-feedback@atlassian.com

Thanks,

Simi

Designer, Confluence Server

There is a simple workaround: disable the onboarding process, as follows:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-skip-the-onboarding-page-welcome-action-for-new-users-in-confluence-777016501.html

works like a charm.

Thanks for your interest in this issue.

This request is considered a potential addition to our longer-term roadmap. We'll typically review this request in about 12 months time and consider whether we need to alter the status.

Another problem with disabling the onbarding process completely is that Confluence no longer redirects to the chosen default space! We have a default space that tells new users about how we use confluence and now I have two options:

• Disable onboarding and get no redirect to the page
• Enable onboarding which makes new users get stuck on the watch space dialog (because they don't know what they should do and there is no skup button...)

It is really annoying for us administrators to manually have to remove first-time users as watchers from some spaces. It doesn't seem that the lists of spaces shown to the 1st time-logged-in users follows any kind of order either. I think this feature was implemented without any further thinking. Nice if this can be removed from the onboarding process, or provide a "Hop over" link at least.

I don't want to disable the onboarding process completely in my instance (as suggested here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-skip-the-welcome-action-for-new-users-in-confluence-777016501.html), but forcing new users to watch a space before they can use the product is just setting them up to simply ignore every single email from Confluence.  I would much rather users get email notifications for items they care about, not items they were unwittingly forced into getting notifications for.

Is there any way to disable just this page of the onboarding process?