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You should be able to experience the slowness for yourself by spending a few minutes using your product. Then try something like notion or pretty much any other web app and notice how your blood pressure drops and your stress levels decrease.

It is not a particular area it is the whole thing. Every interaction makes me want to gouge my own eyes out. It's a glorified text area with a menu, why should every click cause dozens of requests that take more than 10 seconds to complete?

I can only conclude Atlassian engineering is utterly disfunctional for this to have gone on so long unimproved.



Hi ratherbefuddled,

We definitely recognize we have a lot of work to do on performance in general, and we're definitely trying. "fixing everything" is definitely part of our plans, but we'd also like to "fix whatever users find the most frustrating".

If any specific items stand out as the most frustrating please do let us know.


I think you are taking entirely the wrong approach here.

Pressing refresh on the front page causes TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN requests for about 7MB of resources.

The only meaningful content on this page is a list of 20 or so links.

You don't need customer feedback here, you need some basic engineering principles and a tiny bit of pride.


Hi ratherbefuddled,

Thank you for the insight. We are definitely working on generalized efforts to make 'most/all/everything' faster (including speeding up the app overhead), but those types of projects unsurprisingly take a little longer to finish.

On the other hand, specific user feedback might be 'the most annoying thing to me is that pages with Links load slowly, I need the links to load earlier because of X', or 'I need inline comments to load faster than page comments, because of reason Y'

-> this type of feedback could give us something we can fix quickly and alleviate user frustration sooner. Hopefully the intention makes sense.

Of course, in general, we're also always looking for any feedback that can help us improve Confluence!


Your response seems to show the problem. Trying to add little quick fixes might sound reasonable from a business perspective, but it's not going to help on the tech side. If anything it's going to make matters worse.


Hi pintxo,

Thanks for the consideration - we are working on big fixes as well, but can't share information about those until we are closer to shipping. In the mean time we're open to suggestions and feedback of all types.




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