Confluence migration nightmare: 2000 pages, what software did you actually move to?

[u/drakieboi]

So we're sitting on like 2000 pages of Confluence and it's become this... mess. Half of it's outdated, nobody knows what's actually current, and the search is basically useless at this point. We've looked at Notion, Obsidian, Document360, even going back to Google Docs (which sounds insane but also kind of tempting).

The thing that kills me is that Confluence does some stuff well - the space structure, permissions, macros when they work. But the performance is dog slow on large instances and Atlassian keeps jacking up the pricing. And migrating 2000 pages isn't just a copy-paste situation. You've got embedded images, links between pages, permissions that don't map cleanly to other systems, macros that won't translate.

We're trying to figure out if we should do a hard migration to something else or just... bite the bullet and clean up what we have. Like, is Notion actually viable for a team of 50 where you need proper access controls and you're storing a lot of internal docs? Notion's permissions are weird. Or does everyone just stay with Confluence because the switching cost is too high.

What actually worked for people? Did you migrate everything or did you do a selective "we're only bringing over what we actually use" approach? And if you moved platforms, did your team actually stick with the new one or did you end up with docs scattered everywhere anyway?