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Confluence. It's so easy to organise information and documentation now for technical projects. Of course its free form so people can be messy with it, but done right, and with the good plugins, like draw.io it's really powerful. Integrates very well with JIRA also.

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I used to think this as well. But over time, I've seen it devolve into a wasteland of out of date information. This is driven by two factors. First, the search functionality is by far the worst search I have ever seen. This leads to duplicate information as people relearn and redocument things because they couldn't find them. Second, confluence has a very powerful permission system. Once you get past a certain scale, you can end up with little fiefdoms of information. Want to update a common piece of documentation? You need to convince the owner to give you edit rights. Who is the owner? I dunno, start asking around.

Seconded. The search is bad, and Confluence feels unstructured, but with tight security.

It was better than DokuWiki, for sure, but DokuWiki was free...

I still cannot believe how unbelievably bad confluence's search is. It's embarrassing

I rarely use the search, but when I do I've never noticed it to not find what I know is there. Perhaps it is crap and there are many other hits its not returning for my searches - can you give an example of a bad search result you got?

It only does full-exact-word searches. If a word is written in a slightly different form or you write only a part of it, it won't find it.

Thanks. That's very poor alright, I'll keep a note of it.

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