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It's only "half the price" if you ignore the cost of Confluence itself. The Atlassian people are also historically awful at building out features that make hosting their products easier (for example, they've ignored a request for a "read only" mode for about 12 years now [1]).

The simple fact that it is a product that is made by someone other than Atlassian is a huge selling point.

[1] https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-6390?page=com.a...

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FYI that we're implementing read-ony mode in our data center product line, and we've also got various knowledge base articles for how to achieve this should you need it:

  https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-make-confluence-read-only-311920317.html

In any software, you've always got old requests that haven't been filled. We're just public about it.

StackOverflow has the same issue here: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-requ...

Many top requests are 9+ years old.

I have never had the opportunity to tell anyone at Atlassian how much I love Confluence. There are so many cool technical feats that improve my experience, like being able to open an embedded spreadsheet in Excel and having it update the version on the page when you hit save. So many things that aren't natural for the web are seamless, like indent levels and accepting pasted images. So many organizational tools like excerpts and child view macro. So many usability features like attachment versioning and keyboard shortcuts.

It takes a great company to make such a great product so easy to use. Thank you.

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