XWiki Product Feedback
Here are some excerpts of what users have said while filling the XWiki Product Survey.
- Feedback from 2024
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- Feedback from 2015 and older
- 27.02.2025 12:09:40:
Overall, excellent tool.
- 01.02.2025 16:24:55:
The lack of dark themes is a problem. Also had "white on white" text/background problems with existing ones. I was about to use Dark Reader, but it made stuff like color pickers render white color as black, so I ditched the idea. Took me a few days to configure theme by hand, encountering different problems in different themes. Had to learn some CSS stuff for that as well, since themes do include custom LESS code which overrides variables from other parts of theme editing interface. Same goes to the font size, changing @font-size-base in the interface only made the panel huge, but didn't affect the font size at all. Found a way to set it by adding "body " to the beginning of the @lessCode, but you kinda have to know about it. It would be fair to say that people who's trying to self-host a wiki are expected to know the basics, but I think there's room for improvement in "simplicity" and "design" aspects.
I had some weird errors and bugs happening which I cannot reproduce now, some of it was due to installed extensions, but I had problems prior to installing any. I'm using a docker-compose behind nginx reverse proxy scenario, followed the guides, but had to search for additional information, because of weird errors everywhere at the initial configuration screen. Although I got passed it initially, but couldn't download any extension later on. So I spent some time searching the internet for similar problems and came to a conclusion it's a reverse proxy thing. While being right, no solution helped me, until I stumbled upon a sample nginx configuration and just tried adding stuff one by one. Finally I got it working and it happened after adding these specific lines to "location / " block: proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; I know I'm a noobie, to say the least, but still. After that I had several more weird problems, but they seem to be gone and I cannot reproduce them anymore. I'm also having troubles with tables, or rather trying to place empty lines after them. They end up on the right side of the tables for several lines, at least in the editor, and after you save the changes what you see on the page and in the editor is not the same. I don't know how to explain it, I will probably properly file a bug later. Having said all that, XWiki overall feels great and seem to have a lot of features. Hopefully I'll figure out the remaining stuff. Thank you all for this software.
