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Is not whole Atlassians business a unified toolset for all of this? I would not say that nobody actually tried to be that one place... I only seeing GitLab beeing the best open source solution without making a big risk with vendor lock in. And they are also cheaper than their competitors (github, Atlassian etc.) when you want to do private team development.

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I wouldn't say Atlassian has worked to make a great unified UX. I mean, they tried, but using their products makes it painfully clear that they just glued togeather a bunch of disparate projects. For example, each product supports different markup languages (or none at all) with different editor buttons and shortcuts and so on. Even the github ecosystem feels more integrated, because everyone just follows the broad strokes of what github does with its UX and integrates with it.

...and keyboard shortcuts....don't forget about those!

I feel like every Atlassian product has a totally different Markdown syntax for no good reason. That makes it feel very non-unified.

If they support markdown at all... (I'm looking at you, hipchat).

this is the number reason for me for using Slack. Although their Markdown support is also not perfect.

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