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Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

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Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#41
I have been promoted to Team Lead recently and while I saw Jira as a burden while being a dev, I now totally rely on it to keep on overview.

We're currently looking into outphasing Jira and going to GitLab, but as I see, you can't nest tickets there. Can you? This is absolutely crucial to me. I'm happy for recommendations that allow ticket nesting (Epic, Issue, Subissue) and interface nicely with GitLab.

Thanks!

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#43

For a company worth a small fortune Atlassian are totally incapable of designing good products. Since they acquired Trello I’ve watched them slowly but surely overcomplicate the interface making the product less intuitive.

I swear Confluence was designed by somebody who woke up from a coma or cryogenic sleep and brought cutting edge 1996 functions to the web. It was so sad to see people like it. Oh you poor pitiful souls…

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

#44

For a company worth a small fortune Atlassian are totally incapable of designing good products. Since they acquired Trello I’ve watched them slowly but surely overcomplicate the interface making the product less intuitive.

I swear Confluence was designed by somebody who woke up from a coma or cryogenic sleep and brought cutting edge 1996 functions to the web. It was so sad to see people like it. Oh you poor pitiful souls…

Honestly: Do you know of any wiki software that’s better than Confluence? I have yet to see one.

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

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At least it doesn't suck as much as Bugzilla. Apparently you can only get "loads fast" or "is usable" and not both. But when in doubt, I'll choose usable.

Github loads fast and is usable. It might have less/other features, but why would having more filtering options and more fields in each "issue" make load times 30x slower? Same with confluence, I don't mind if the editor takes a minute to start up, but why reading the page takes like 10sec?

JIRA is infinitely customizable. That often results in abysmal performance.

For the same reason, managers often love it so they can model their workflow to the point.

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a company worth a small fortune Atlassian Atlassian market cap: 52 billion USD > a small fortune > small What.

The "small fortune" in "worth a small fortune" actually means "a lot of money."

Ah, indeed: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/small_fortune#Noun

English isn't my first language, so thanks for the hint!

Re: Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad

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post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I swear Confluence was designed by somebody who woke up from a coma or cryogenic sleep and brought cutting edge 1996 functions to the web. It was so sad to see people like it. Oh you poor pitiful souls…

Honestly: Do you know of any wiki software that’s better than Confluence? I have yet to see one.

SharePoint?
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