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Confluence publishing options

An alternative to Confluence anonymous access

Anonymous access can make sense when you want people to read content directly in Confluence. But if you want to publish selected pages as a separate external website, Satori Cloud takes a different approach.

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Two different publishing models

Confluence anonymous access

External readers access content through Confluence.

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Satori Cloud

Selected Confluence content becomes a separate external website.

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We will compare public links, anonymous access, guest access, manual sharing, and publishing as a simple website.

Why consider another approach?

Sometimes you want to publish the content, not expose Confluence itself.

Anonymous access solves a real problem: allowing people who are not logged in to read Confluence content.

The question is whether Confluence itself should also be the external experience. Customers, partners or prospects may only need a small, approved subset of your content.

In that situation, a publishing layer lets your team continue working internally while giving external readers a separate destination.

Anonymous access

When Confluence itself is a perfectly good public destination

You are comfortable making the relevant Confluence content publicly accessible.

The standard Confluence reader experience works for your audience.

You do not need a separate publishing workflow or external site.

Your team is comfortable managing public visibility directly in Confluence.

Satori Cloud

When you want Confluence to stay behind the publishing layer

You only want to publish selected pages.

Readers do not need access to your internal workspace.

You want a separate customer-facing website.

You want to sync and preview changes before explicitly publishing them.

Don't confuse the two

Anonymous access and Confluence public links are different approaches.

If you're deciding between Atlassian's own external-sharing options, compare them first before deciding whether you need a separate publishing layer.

Compare public links vs anonymous access

Side-by-side

Confluence anonymous access vs Satori Cloud

Both can make Confluence content available externally. The difference is where the reader experience lives.

Best for

Confluence anonymous access

Making Confluence-hosted content available to external readers.

Satori Cloud

Publishing selected Confluence pages as a separate external site.

Reader experience

Confluence anonymous access

Readers view the content through Confluence.

Satori Cloud

Readers view a separate published website.

Publishing model

Confluence anonymous access

Public visibility is managed through Confluence.

Satori Cloud

Choose the pages you want included on the external site.

Authoring workflow

Confluence anonymous access

Write and expose the content through Confluence.

Satori Cloud

Keep writing in Confluence and use Satori for the published version.

Updating the live site

Confluence anonymous access

The public experience is tied to the Confluence content and access configuration.

Satori Cloud

Sync into a draft, preview it and explicitly publish when ready.

The publishing-layer model

Keep Confluence private and publish the selected content separately.

Satori is not a replacement for Confluence. It sits between your source content and the external audience.

Read the full publishing-without-access guide
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Connect Confluence

Connect the workspace containing the source content.

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Select the pages

Choose what belongs on the external site.

3

Sync and preview

Pull in the latest source content and review the draft.

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Publish explicitly

Update the live site only when you're ready.

When selected-page publishing helps

Publish external content without turning Confluence itself into the destination.

Product documentation

Publish setup guides, how-to content and product information.

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Customer knowledge base

Give customers a separate destination for support answers.

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External sharing

Compare the wider ways to share Confluence content externally.

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FAQ

Alternatives to Confluence anonymous access

Is Satori Cloud a replacement for Confluence?

No. Your team keeps using Confluence as the source. Satori Cloud is the publishing layer for selected external-facing content.

Is Satori Cloud an alternative to Confluence anonymous access?

It can be if your goal is to publish selected Confluence pages as a separate external website rather than make Confluence itself the public destination.

What is the difference between anonymous access and public links?

They are different Confluence sharing models. For a dedicated comparison, see Confluence public links vs anonymous access .

Do external readers need a Confluence account with Satori Cloud?

No. They access the published Satori website rather than your Confluence workspace.

Can I choose individual pages to publish?

Yes. You choose which pages are part of the Satori site rather than automatically publishing everything.

When should I use anonymous access instead?

Anonymous access may be the simpler option when you are happy for readers to access the content through Confluence and do not need a separate external publishing layer.

Keep Confluence for your team. Publish the pages external readers need.

Connect Confluence, choose the content you want to share and publish it as a separate external site.

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