Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence?

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Post by Hnrobert42 » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 8:41 AM UTC

stevesimmons wrote: post #9

I could live with Confluence if it played better with Markdown

When you create a new page, click the Try the New Editor option. It handles MD inline. I still haven’t figured out how to open existing pages with the new editor.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence?

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Post by billconan » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 10:18 AM UTC

recently saw https://www.nuclino.com/

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence?

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Post by neverminder » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 11:39 AM UTC

chrisked wrote: post #2

You can try https://www.getoutline.com/ .

I tried. Couldn't install it on my vanilla Ubuntu server because of infinite dependency hell. Then I tried wiki.js which installed and worked fine, aside from a few minor bugs. I was actually rather surprised by absence of decent open source wiki options.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence?

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Post by hajrice » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 3:47 PM UTC

try helpjuice.com

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence?

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Post by dmitripopov » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 3:49 PM UTC

I create SimpleDocServer for one of my customers as a quick-and-dirty Confluence replacement based entirely on Markdown. So if your point is information delivery and you are OK to collaborate on content creation via Git (or any other similar tool) then it might fit your needs. https://www.helpinator.com/simpledocserver.html

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence?

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Post by philpem » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 8:33 AM UTC

At the last place I worked -- and at a volunteer-run event I'm involved with -- we use DokuWiki.

The most difficult problem is getting people to use the damn thing, whatever you choose. WYSIWYG editing might help for less-experienced users (or those who don't want to learn the markup language), but I haven't looked for a plugin for that. Yet. :)

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence?

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Post by codemusings » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 8:52 AM UTC

https://wiki.js.org seems to be pretty neat. It's all file based and only uses CouchDB for user administration.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence?

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Post by jbms » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 1:53 PM UTC

Navigation is about how you've structured things as team/company. Perhaps creating additional directory pages would help to get different views on all the pages/data in the system?

Speed: Does the server have enough RAM? Is it running with the recommended database for fastest use? Atlassian offer some guidance: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/performance-tuning-1302...