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I stopped using confluence the moment I realized the markdown editor was removed. I don't care so much about the flavor, but there's something very annoying about needing to get fancy with the way I edit text to preserve formatting.

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Same here. I'd made some nice (and quite simple) tooling to parse docstrings out of a Python project and turn them into Markdown that I could copy-and-paste into Confluence. It was so convenient to run something like "make documents" to basically compile the project's documentation from inspecting the project itself! But then Confluence broke their editor by making it WYSIWYG-only. And in response, I broke Confluence by convincing our CTO to ditch that now worthless documentation system for something else.

What is something else? I’m interested, if it’s available for download (not cloud).

Been working on Documize[0] for a while now and we get plenty of Confluence people moving over.

Open source core supporting WYSIWYG, Markdown, Code and more.

[0] https://github.com/documize/community

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