why is this community not powered by confluence?

[Jill Solovey]

I noticed that this online community is not powered by Confluence.  I wonder why?  seems like this is a confluence common use case?  

[AnnWorley]

Hi Jill,

That is a good question. We formerly used Confluence with the Questions for Confluence add-on for our Community. Now, as our Confluence Product manager explains on this other post, What is the future of Questions for Confluence?:

...the decision to move Atlassian Community to a new platform was the result of the broadening requirements of the Community. That is, the need for the Community site to encompass more than Q&A, and also to offer things like user-generated articles, product-specific landing pages and topical themes, which aren’t currently part of the feature set of Questions.

Please let us know any follow up questions or anything we can help with.

Thanks,

Ann