Alternative to confluence?
Posted by Warm-Librarian-4452@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 12 comments
Currently looking for an alternative to confluence for a startup engineer we want something simple and web based so obsidian is out of the question and I dont like how cluttered notion is. Ideally it should integrate heavily with claude code. Ive heard about bookstack and sophic has anyone tried these or have suggestions?
picklednull@reddit
Microsoft Loop. Natural if you’re on the Microsoft ecosystem.
apophis27983@reddit
I like mediawiki.
MeetJoan@reddit
BookStack is solid for structured documentation but the Claude Code integration story isn't there natively. If Claude Code integration is a real requirement, Notion is actually the strongest option right now despite the clutter (it has an MCP server that Claude Code can use directly) - worth trying a cleaner workspace setup before ruling it out. Outline is another option worth looking at: cleaner than Notion, web-based, and open source if you want self-hosted.
Conagempi@reddit
Have you tried Nuclino? We've been using it for a few years now, it's pretty clean and lightweight compared to Notion
cjchico@reddit
Outline wiki, they have an MCP server.
Warm-Librarian-4452@reddit (OP)
Will take a look
sryan2k1@reddit
More Outline votes here.
pausethelogic@reddit
Can you elaborate on what you mean by how cluttered notion is? It’s up to you to decide how to organize your documents, by default Notion is a blank slate
Horror_Carpenter9999@reddit
just tried sophic its pretty good if you don’t want to maintain your docs otherwise id use gitlab since their wiki included
Warm-Librarian-4452@reddit (OP)
sophic seems really interesting the builds itself is very promising if it works well
LaxVolt@reddit
I’m currently testing Bookstack and Wiki.js. I like Bookstack more due to searching and organizing, it also has markdown and syntax highlighting. Wiki.js is probably a bit more powerful, but I’m struggling with its navigation. Also search on Wiki.js isn’t the best with MariaDB, it’s supposed to be better with Postgres but I’ve not rebuilt it. It’s also got connectors for elastisearch but that farther than I’m ready for. I’ve not heard of Sophic so I’m going to go check that out.
Horror_Carpenter9999@reddit
Id recommend sophic its still early stage so its has flaws but it has exactly what I want as someone who hates writing docs. But if you prefer less ai magic and are more dev focused gitlabs wiki is pretty darn good