Still 10x better than Jira
I sort of think this announcement comes from someone seeing the writing on the wall, maybe a possible future acceleration of this trend.
Search is atrocious.
UX is awful. It's 2023 and whatever version I'm using, it still doesn't accept markdown properly. And it's wysiwyg mode is broken most of the time too - try selecting text and setting it as code/preformatted and the entire comment, or description changes instead.
It's a jack of all trades, master of none.
It's funny, because I was one of the first adopters of it for Megabank, back in the early 00s, because it was fast (flat ui on top of our own Sybase instance), and its UI was simple.
Atlassian search can best be described as: "I couldn't find what you're looking for, so here's a PDF".
I'd be happy for neither though. Markdown's origins were such that you could write plaintext files that could not only be easily converted to html or some rich format, but were easy to read as-is.
Displaying the plain-text of an issue in fixed-width font would be fine.
Is the UX really that great? My company has rules about what needs to be filled out before a ticket will appear in our board, but there are so many different things that it is easy to skip one. But there is no indication in the ui of what is required versus what isn’t. It happens often enough that I’d say my user experience with jira is just short of rage inducing.
The Jira I'm familiar with may be extremely powerful, but fast it certainly is not. I also rarely need that power which comes with non-trivial complexity.
That is an interesting comment. Did Jira made some fundamental changes? Or was it really fast as in comparatively speaking to its old self when it was insanely slow?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
In my eyes it's like a phpMyAdmin specialized for ticketing with an interface which is good enough to not be annoyed when dealing with it.
Bugzilla is literally a cgi-bin Perl script where everything you do is a new page load.
Jira has tons of interactive responsive menus and time saving conveniences. Every month it gets faster and easier to use in some way. You can be way more productive and get work done faster.
You get less work done because OCD admins keep adding more and more required fields to tickets and you end up having to spend more and more time on writing tickets. In a less flexible system you wouldn't need to deal with so many mandated stupid workflows that suck time away from actually writing and testing code.
LIES!
[0] https://youtu.be/kqTR0mrIIEc?t=2676
(The entire lecture and Q&A in that video is quite good).