How does this relate to https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-52686 ?

(sigh) - now +ing the new issue.

@sbrannen this issue was opened before datacented existed. All feedback in this issue was explicitly for non datacenter. Why do we have to vote again and wait another 12 years?

rs1,

We're tracking interest for read only mode in non-DC Confluence installs at CONFSERVER-55071. Please vote for and comment on that ticket so that the development team can see how valuable this would be for non-DC customers.

Regards,
Stephen Brannen | Atlassian Support

Hi @abarnes 

the issue was filed for CONFSERVER. As I appreciate a solution for Confluence Data Center, this issue is NOT RESOLVED for server. Opening a new issue for the same topic again is, lets face it, not a solution.

Be honest, don't f#%&% with the customer and clearly state that this feature will only be available for data center customers for the next years. Then we would know where we're up to & might considering switch to data center or, maybe, another solution.

Just my 2c

Jan-Peter

Well some of you probably know this but Server version and Data Center version is basically the same application, you download the same binaries and libraries. The only difference is some configuration files and the license. So when such a "feature" is implemented, then its available for both of them in the meaning that the code is there. Analyzing the "maintenanace" feature source code you get this:

if (!licenseService.isLicensedForDataCenterOrExempt()) {
    throw new ServiceException("The instance is not a Data Center");
}

So implementing it for the Server version should be simple enough as removing those lines (in a very crude simplification).
Now Atlassian is a big corporate family right now, so it's not a surprise that they make decision based mostly on profit. Well it's their product and they have the right to do so. And their policy against server customers is known since several years ago when they announced that, with a growing cloud customer base.

Of course I also think that with such policies they should stop the PR marketing and remove one of their values from the list (You all know which I'm referring to) and replace it with "We care mostly about profit now". But still they do have the right to implement all the policies they wan't to. And we as customers can do only one thing: find a better product.

This issue has NOT been resolved! This is just marketing bull$ and you know it!

Where is that Atlassian from 10y a go, trying to build best product available? Well, after this I guess forever gone...

Sad indeed. I think this may be the moment Atlassian finally, definitively jumped the shark.

Hi,

I know this issue is closed - but, seeing all of this happening:

• This feature being requested 12 years ago.
• This feature (very basic in its nature) gets implemented only for Data Center version.
• Atlassian makes a marketing splash with this feature and closes this ticket.
• And paying Confluence Server customers are left with nothing, this issue is closed, and they are asked to make a separate request.

... all of this together makes me said.

I've been a Confluence admin (with non-zero input into purchase decisions) for about 10 years.  I may use my non-zero input next time.

This issue was hijacked and now used for marketing to upsell people to datacenter. We just got a marketing email for https://www.atlassian.com/webinars/software/introducing-read-only-mode-for-confluence-data-center

To help teams minimize planned downtime in Confluence Data Center, we're introducing read-only mode, a top-voted feature request. 

This was top voted for non-datacenter