Ask HN: Why do developers hate Confluence?

I generally liked Python doctests: runnable documentation. It is really an amazing concept, only a step removed from literate programming IMO.

Two problems with it were that 1. often setup boilerplate overshadowed the actual essence of the documentation and 2. people abused them for e2e testing making for unreasonable reading (and slow testsuite runs).

git + markdown is the way, especially in these agentic days

plenty of tools to turn that into html if you want

confluence is bloated an unweildy

Jira done well is actually nice

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