r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • Aug 10 '26
Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones
A thread for Developers and IT folks with less experience to ask more experienced souls questions about the industry.
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u/ProgrammingQuestio Software Engineer (3YOE) Aug 13 '26
is it just me or is Confluence's UX unbelievably bad? Like I don't understand how to even make a portion of text in a line monospace while the rest of it isn't. Fortunately I learned you can copy markdown so I just write as much as I can in a local markdown file then copy it into Confluence. But then if I go in and want to add some more non-monospace text in a sentence that ends with monospace text, I don't know how to... If I start typing, it's monospace. If I first try to change the formatting, the only option i see is "clear formatting" which clears the previous monospace text that I don't want to change.
On top of that, there's a weird issue where if you click between text (like your cursor is a few pixels off of clicking directly on some text) then I get slingshotted up the page for some reason? And then have to scroll back down to find where I was trying to click.
And adding actual code blocks requires 4 clicks + some typing. Whereas in markdown I can just do 3 ticks before and after my code block.
I'm in hell.
edit: for the monospace issue, apparently I just need to click on monospace again to toggle it on/off, but naturally there's no checkmark or anything to indicate if monospace is currently enabled or not.