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Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#51

To be fair, developers everywhere are probably more productive with JIRA unavailable.

LOL no. If you think this way, there's something wrong in which your company is using it. It helps me personally to manage my work better.

Yeah I hear this often enough that maybe its just too hard to setup correctly… but no it’s the users who are wrong.

Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#52
post #8

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From what I understand, Atlassian is pushing hard to move everyone to their cloud offerings. I think the only way to run on-prem stuff now is to use the Enterprise or Data Center offerings, which are stupid expensive.

How has no one open-sourced a competing product by now? It feels like the universe where Git was never invented and everyone stayed subscribed to Perforce. Are executives just scared of getting fired for moving off of Azure DevOps and Jira? They’re both garbage pieces of software and everyone who uses them knows it.

Because Atlassian pulled a Microsoft and made sure everyone had already irreplaceably adopted their products into their workflows before they made this move.

Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#54

I never hear anyone shilling for them, so now is my chance. Anyone who’s looking for a great JIRA alternative, I love Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse). It’s the best task management software I’ve used aside from the “no task management software” option. Very snappy, updates in real time, notifications make sense, and no workflow-manipulation shenanigans.

> Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse)

I've been semi-tracking them because they're a local NYC Clojure shop and had wondered how they were handling the social network name overlap. Glad to hear they're still around.

Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#55
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It’s a near uniform “joke” at this point. Eventually you need to stop blaming the user.

What issues do people have with Jira? I've always wondered.

It went from an highly efficient and customisable ticket/work tracker to a clusterfsck of a feature creep mess that requires 10 clicks to add an item to a custom field, that’s when you remember where to look because if you are not an atlassian PhD, it will take more time to search how to do something than simply implementing it.

  I am still using it because my team is used to it and I don’t have the time to migrate the 3gb+ Database somewhere else for now.
Actually this is a good point, anyone migrated somewhere else using the backup? What was your experience?

Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#56

I never hear anyone shilling for them, so now is my chance. Anyone who’s looking for a great JIRA alternative, I love Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse). It’s the best task management software I’ve used aside from the “no task management software” option. Very snappy, updates in real time, notifications make sense, and no workflow-manipulation shenanigans.

Shortcut is great, but their UI is slow and outdated.

Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#57

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What are the pains of using Jira and confluence?

Slow, complex (in terms of feature), painful (in terms of UX)---pick any three.

Inconsistent user experience between the products. “Oh this is Jira so I can’t use those formatting options that I use in confluence.”

Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#58
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what I understand, Atlassian is pushing hard to move everyone to their cloud offerings. I think the only way to run on-prem stuff now is to use the Enterprise or Data Center offerings, which are stupid expensive.

How has no one open-sourced a competing product by now? It feels like the universe where Git was never invented and everyone stayed subscribed to Perforce. Are executives just scared of getting fired for moving off of Azure DevOps and Jira? They’re both garbage pieces of software and everyone who uses them knows it.

Confluence is unmatched in the niche it is in - if you compare feature for feature many wikis seem comparable; but the amount of addons for Confluence is stupid high, and many do weird little things that are really helpful for business.

Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#59
post #56

I never hear anyone shilling for them, so now is my chance. Anyone who’s looking for a great JIRA alternative, I love Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse). It’s the best task management software I’ve used aside from the “no task management software” option. Very snappy, updates in real time, notifications make sense, and no workflow-manipulation shenanigans.

Shortcut is great, but their UI is slow and outdated.

How? It seems responsive to me. Most actions result in changing the UI a bit but showing data that’s already preloaded. So no delay waiting for a server roundtrip most of the time.

Re: Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

#60
post #47

We just started moving to JIRA after a few years of Gitlab, where gitlab issues feels like nobody has worked on it for a long time. And Jira has been really great. The sprint boards, concept of mapping statuses to in progress etc have all been great. My one gripe (and it’s not a small one) is performance. It still feels quite sluggish. Is Atlassian ever going to address this?

If you're on cloud there's really nothing you can do; on server there are/were some performance tricks you could do by analyzing the SQL queries and designing the fields to be as slim as possible.
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