It is not a particular area it is the whole thing. Every interaction makes me want to gouge my own eyes out. It's a glorified text area with a menu, why should every click cause dozens of requests that take more than 10 seconds to complete?
I can only conclude Atlassian engineering is utterly disfunctional for this to have gone on so long unimproved.
We definitely recognize we have a lot of work to do on performance in general, and we're definitely trying. "fixing everything" is definitely part of our plans, but we'd also like to "fix whatever users find the most frustrating".
If any specific items stand out as the most frustrating please do let us know.
Pressing refresh on the front page causes TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN requests for about 7MB of resources.
The only meaningful content on this page is a list of 20 or so links.
You don't need customer feedback here, you need some basic engineering principles and a tiny bit of pride.
Thank you for the insight. We are definitely working on generalized efforts to make 'most/all/everything' faster (including speeding up the app overhead), but those types of projects unsurprisingly take a little longer to finish.
On the other hand, specific user feedback might be 'the most annoying thing to me is that pages with Links load slowly, I need the links to load earlier because of X', or 'I need inline comments to load faster than page comments, because of reason Y'
-> this type of feedback could give us something we can fix quickly and alleviate user frustration sooner. Hopefully the intention makes sense.
Of course, in general, we're also always looking for any feedback that can help us improve Confluence!
Thanks for the consideration - we are working on big fixes as well, but can't share information about those until we are closer to shipping. In the mean time we're open to suggestions and feedback of all types.
My original post did not mean to give the impression we think Confluence is fast - we do recognize that we have a lot of room for improvement.
The reason we're asking for feedback on specific areas that are annoying is that while we can work on making 'everything' faster, knowing which specific items may be of the most concern may allow us to focus fix those items first.
If you do have any feedback around such specific items we would be happy if you're willing to share it.
We have a lot of metrics, and we recognize that Confluence is not as fast or as good an experience as it should be.
However nothing beats user feedback - hearing specific feedback from users may provide us with specific areas that we can focus our work, on top of the work we're already doing.
If you have any feedback like that, we're hopeful you're willing to share it with us.