Confluence
Confluence is a team wiki and knowledge management platform by Atlassian for organizing documentation and collaborative content.
About this data
Updated June 29, 2026
Overall Pulse Score
-6 over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 953 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 23 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.
Weekly Sentiment Trend
Pulse Score by week over the selected period. Each point is one complete week of mentions.
This week in public discussion
Recent discussion around Confluence skewed heavily negative, with commenters raising repeated concerns about bugs, reliability problems, and missing features across hundreds of mentions. A notable thread of frustration centered on Atlassian's reported plans to use customer data for AI training, with several posters debating opt-out options and data privacy. Some commenters also criticized specific behaviors like automatic AI-generated page titles and unwanted UI prompts. A smaller portion of mentions offered praise for integrations and certain features, but complaints far outnumbered positive remarks in the recent period.
Read the deeper analysisAI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.
Sentiment mix by week
How the tone of public discussion splits each week.
Most-discussed praise
Most-discussed complaints
Themes across the selected period, with mention counts.
How Confluence compares
Pulse Score over the selected period versus the top tracked competitors in Project Management.
Where the mentions come from
Share of the 953 relevant public mentions in the selected period, by source.
Sample public mentions
Showing 5 of 953 analyzed public mentions in this period, with links to the original source. We do not reproduce full threads.
“Editing content via Rovo MCP causes the loss of all ADF-rich content. ## Summary Because Atlassian Document Format (ADF) supports many node types that have no Markdown equivalent, any update made through the MCP to fields containing these features causes the content to be silentl...”
“I used to suggest Notion as a simpler alternative to Jira/Confluence because the UX was just so much better, but now both have fuckin AI bullshit built in. Does anyone have suggestions for a wiki/task management combo (or two really great separate tools) that have taken active an...”
“Feature Request: Add getConfluenceBlogpost tool for fetching blog post content. # Problem Currently, the getConfluencePage tool only supports fetching Confluence **_pages_** via the endpoint. When attempting to fetch a **_blog post_** by its ID, the tool returns a 404 error becau...”
“updateConfluencePage / createConfluencePage unusable for large pages — body parameter has no file-reference or partial-update mechanism. ## Problem updateConfluencePage and createConfluencePage require the entire page body to be passed as an inline string parameter. For pages wit...”
“I decided to keep using Confluence to organize my design. I love GDDs... and started with one. During active development having living docs in a wiki-esque format has always worked best for me. What do you use? #gamedev #indiedev”
1,743+ more analyzed mentions, full history, and theme breakdowns are part of Pro.
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- Bug reports and reliability complaints dominated discussion by a wide margin, setting a consistently negative overall tone.
- Sentiment fell from an early-window high to its lowest point in early June before recovering only partially, leaving the period net negative in direction.
- Opinion was divided on AI features, with some commenters finding them intrusive or absurd while a smaller number offered qualified praise for integrations.
- Atlassian's data-use policy announcement generated notable anxiety and drew comparisons to open-source alternatives, adding a trust-related thread to the frustration.
| Praise theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Good integrations | 57 |
| Strong features | 53 |
| Feature requests | 28 |
| Easy to use | 22 |
| New releases | 9 |
| Complaint theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Bugs | 367 |
| Missing features | 215 |
| Reliability | 179 |
| Lacking integrations | 114 |
| Feature requests | 89 |
Public discussion of Confluence over the past four weeks was dominated overwhelmingly by frustration. Bug reports accounted for the single largest cluster of mentions, and reliability concerns followed closely behind, together dwarfing any positive signal in the conversation. Commenters surfaced specific technical failures, with one widely noticed thread describing a broken attachment and image download endpoint returning 401 errors on Confluence Cloud, framing it as a regression caused by the removal of a legacy download path. The tone in these threads ranged from dry irritation to open mockery, with one commenter wishing for an engine fire on a racing car specifically to get a usable image of the Atlassian logo in flames for the next time Confluence and Jira act up.
Sentiment direction across the window showed a modest early peak around the third week before falling to its lowest recorded point in early June, then staging only a partial recovery in the final two weeks. The surge in mention volume in the last three weeks coincided with scores that remained below where the window opened, suggesting that whatever drove increased conversation was not positive in character.
A notable fault line in the discussion concerned Atlassian's announced use of metadata and in-app data for AI training starting in mid-August. Several mentions treated this as a serious concern, with commenters highlighting that opt-out availability depended on plan tier. This dovetailed with a broader undercurrent of distrust, reinforced by promotional posts from open-source competitors framing the moment as an opportunity to migrate away entirely.
Opinion was more divided on AI-generated features inside the product itself. Some commenters found the automatic page-title generation and the Rovo AI assistant annoying or absurd, citing unwanted emoji insertion and unprompted AI behavior. A smaller set of praise-coded mentions acknowledged integrations and specific features favorably, but these were far outnumbered and often framed as concessions rather than enthusiasm.
AI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.
Member perspectives
Individual opinions from Pro members, posted over time. These are personal member views, not aggregated sentiment data.
Overall Pulse Score
-6 over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 953 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 23 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.
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