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Totally agree on Jira's speed. Watching it creep toward a fully rendered page is what got me thinking about this.

I also find customization to be way more trouble than it should be. You basically have to hack it to add a template to the description field.

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Yeah the customization options on JIRA kill me. I have an old joke I always reference when I join a new team

> When your team grows to 25 devs, its an almost certainty that at any point of the day, one of them is adjusting a JIRA workflow

- https://twitter.com/deedubs/status/880819973488340992

Our team has been pondering a move from Github’s issue tracking and projects to JIRA, and taking a peak at it has given me similar impressions; incredibly powerful but ultimately too large of an app for its own good. The paid integrations are also a frustrating reality to live with.

It's really capable, but you can feel it getting ready to collapse under its own weight. Same goes for Confluence.

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