My team currently uses Confluence (an Atlassian product) for requirements, designs, procedures, and for various other engineering and product-related documents. However, I find it slow and difficult to navigate.<p>Has anyone found a better alternative?
In these situations, I find that the conversation always revolves around the tool, and not the end goal. Documentation is a lot like code, but with a lot less people willing to write it.<p>Confluence and it's ilk are only as good as the effort / ownership of those that are willing to put in the time. If your org is not willing, than no other tool is really going to solve the core product.
I played around with: <a href="https://www.notion.so/" rel="nofollow">https://www.notion.so/</a> it didn't stick. Our team is using Tapd (free, in Chinese, made by Tencent) for kanban boards, document sharing and other kinds of collaboration.
Navigation is about how you've structured things as team/company. Perhaps creating additional directory pages would help to get different views on all the pages/data in the system?<p>Speed: Does the server have enough RAM? Is it running with the recommended database for fastest use? Atlassian offer some guidance:
<a href="https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/performance-tuning-130289.html" rel="nofollow">https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/performance-tuning-1302...</a>
I create SimpleDocServer for one of my customers as a quick-and-dirty Confluence replacement based entirely on Markdown. So if your point is information delivery and you are OK to collaborate on content creation via Git (or any other similar tool) then it might fit your needs. <a href="https://www.helpinator.com/simpledocserver.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.helpinator.com/simpledocserver.html</a>
At the last place I worked -- and at a volunteer-run event I'm involved with -- we use DokuWiki.<p>The most difficult problem is getting people to use the damn thing, whatever you choose. WYSIWYG editing might help for less-experienced users (or those who don't want to learn the markup language), but I haven't looked for a plugin for that. Yet. :)
<a href="https://wiki.js.org" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.js.org</a> seems to be pretty neat. It's all file based and only uses CouchDB for user administration.
tl;dr, check these sites:<p><a href="https://www.wikimatrix.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.wikimatrix.org</a><p><a href="http://wiki.c2.com/?TopTenWikiEngines" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.c2.com/?TopTenWikiEngines</a> <- origin of the word "wiki" ( <a href="http://wiki.c2.com/?WikiWikiWeb" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.c2.com/?WikiWikiWeb</a> )<p>Having setup the whole Atlassian on-prem SSO suite of apps on Linux with Git and LDAP talking to AD on Windows, it depends on your needs, as there are a variety of different wiki/collaboration solutions with different capabilities. I've also used these:<p>- Dokuwiki (very simple, text file-based)<p>- Mediawiki (LAMP / database-backed)<p>- SharePoint (MS $$)<p>- Quip<p>Others to look at (including sometimes CMSes)<p>- OneNote<p>- Liferay<p>- Drupal<p>- Statamic<p>- WordPress<p>Also, Confluence has tons of plugins for customization and can be made to be fast with proper configuration.