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I am watching more and more open source projects backing their website completely on Atlassian Confluence. While this tool is a viable choice for Wikis and documentations, i find it horrable as a website. First of all, you look like so many other projects, because there is a common layout for Confluence. Then you have links that normal webusers dont need and are simply a waste of space.
Look at OpenWFE or Blojsom to see what i mean. Horrable from a marketing standpoint (yes also Open source projects should focus on that). Compare these to project sites like Hibernate. You should see the difference.