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How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup

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122 points sks147 | 2 comments | 17 Nov 24 08:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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maccard ◴[17 Nov 24 18:35 UTC] No.42165922[source]▶
As much as I hate it, I think Confluence is the right choice for startups. (Or Github Wiki if you can stomach it). It's free to start, and you get 10 users. By the time you have 10 people who need access, (and you can export PDF's of pages if you have one off sharing to do) you pay $50/mo. If you have 10 employees $50/mo is pocket lint.
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stavros ◴[17 Nov 24 20:58 UTC] No.42167177[source]▶
My problem with Confluence is that I want a wiki primarily to be able to find information, and secondarily to store information, and I can never find anything in Confluence. The search function seems to be optimized for maximum frustration.
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9x39 ◴[18 Nov 24 00:50 UTC] No.42168706[source]▶
That's really surprising. Any idea if it was Confluence self-hosted vs cloud?

We have a pretty substantial Confluence Cloud and don't see the "search doesn't work" problem. Tangent: we have people who browse, and people who search, and ne'er the twain shall meet, but that's a different problem in page structure, conventions, tags, whatever.

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stavros ◴[18 Nov 24 01:51 UTC] No.42169033{3}[source]▶
It's Confluence cloud. I've looked for documents I myself have written, using the keywords I knew were in the title, and got irrelevant random pages. It's ridiculous.
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1. Arrowmaster ◴[18 Nov 24 02:36 UTC] No.42169247{4}[source]▶
This was my experience as well except even worse. When my employer was acquired by evil mega corp ISP, they took away our mediawiki and replaced it with confluence. But they also didn't give us write access and instead had a new technical documentation team doing it except they were just uploading Word docs to Confluence. We couldn't search for anything in the docs but even searching for article titles failed so we all just had to keep bookmarks to what we needed.
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2. maccard ◴[18 Nov 24 11:36 UTC] No.42171542[source]▶
> We couldn't search for anything in the docs but even searching for article titles failed so we all just had to keep bookmarks to what we needed.

My experience with _every_ knowledge base has been that this is the solution. My current team has confluence pages pinned to slack channels which link to the other necessary pages.