The Legacy Editor is being deprecated in Confluence Cloud: Here’s what you need to know

[Ole Nymoen]

It's good that pages with nested macros won't fail after being moved to Confluence.cloud. And it's not a fundamental problem that the legacy editor in Confluence.cloud dies.

But, as a user and administrator of both Datacenter and Cloud sites, Confluence.cloud is still painful, the editor included. It's also painful that new features like whiteboards and databases isn't available on Datacenter.

I have also moved a space from Datacenter to Cloud to test the experience, about 4 months ago. Lots of pages had to be edited as nested macros made rendering challenging. Very good that this is solved.
But I had to edit the pages in Confluence.datacenter before exporting/converting the space in the moving process. Editing hundreds of pages in the new editor was just too painful. 

The design criteria of the new editor is clearly much more geared towards new/inexperienced users as to being an efficient and snappy editor.

Maybe the new editor could get a less WYSIWYG mode that focuses of efficiency for experienced users?

[Kristof Thomys]

Feedback on the new editor. Tables are unusable for compact work.

The new Confluence editor has made table-based content almost unusable for technical or organizational workflows.

Table cells are too large, the line height is fixed, the padding cannot be adjusted, and there is no way to choose a compact layout as there was in the legacy editor.

In longer tables, it is no longer possible to see an overview at a glance. Even with the narrow layout and “Normal text” formatting, tables remain oversized. Important content that used to fit on a single screen now requires constant scrolling. This causes unnecessary friction in many teams.

My request is simple. Please bring back an option for compact table layout. This could be a formatting preset, a macro, or simply a smaller font with tighter spacing.

Thank you.

[Martina Guth]

Hi @Elle Ky , 

one question concerning the legacy templates. Currently I only have the option to create a new template and if I am lucky, I can copy and paste some things from the old to the new template. There are quite a lot of old templates in use in our company. Will we get the opportunity to switch from old to new like on pages even for templates? Otherwise it is really a mess to create all of them new.

Kind regards,

Martina

[Kent Chiu]

Hi @Elle Ky ,

How can we determine whether the Confluence Cloud template is still in the legacy editor or the new editor? I just checked our global templates, and no indicators are showing if it is still in the legacy editor.

Thank you,
--Kent