You also can't even have hyphens in the storage account name. It's a complete shit show tbh. Same with container registries and other resources.

The reporting is the Trump administration was told NOT to attack Iran by the military and intelligence agencies but they did it anyway.

The performance, at least on our cloud instance, has greatly improved. There was a period of time where every load was causing the side bar and other components to slowly load with skeletons everywhere.

There are still skeletons but a lot of the page components load instantly(cached) and others load quite quickly.

Tons of UI "jank" has been cleaned up across Jira and Confluence. The UI design, in general, has also finally cleaned up nicely and "settled".

Confluence articles load very fast now. They have also added Live documents which is a very welcome addition.

Is Jira still bloated? Yeah, but that doesn't preclude improvements. It feels less bloated now to me.

YMMV.

You know.. I keep thinking this might be a good thing in some ways. AI spam could save us from the worst of the current social media status quo, the toxicity of the attention "economy", but flooding it so thoroughly nobody wants to engage with it anymore. Maybe the world can collectively "wake up" and "go outside" by turning towards local and more intimate communities for social interactions..

It's a shame though that this is gonna kill so many sites and projects. Sure we have ChatGPT, but also with things like Google AI summary getting so much better traffic to sites is going to plummet. Without people visiting I think the incentive, heck even motivation, for a ton of the sites is gone. We've seen it with sites like Stack Overflow, but it's probably going to happen to just about everything..

Things are definitely going to change in significant ways. The internet of the past is definitely dead, it just doesn't know it yet.

TBF they have made major improvements, IMHO, to Jira and Confluence over the past few years.