I have used cloud JIRA and non-cloud JIRA. They both have the same (99%, at least) awful UI and UX. They both routinely lag out performing even the most basic operations. They both crap out on me if I leave a tab open overnight and try to do something in it the next day. They are both miserable to use. On-premises is not some solution.
It’s way faster than any cloud instance I’ve used. Sure, it’s just public browsing, and most features are hidden behind login, but good luck getting that performance from the cloud version.
Wow, thanks for sharing! This is legitimately the fastest Atlassian product experience I've ever had. Probably by an entire order of magnitude. It makes a little more sense how they bamboozle execs into foisting JIRA on their entire org now.
I can definitely believe that a well-tuned, properly specced on-prem JIRA can be faster than the cloud version ever can be, now. TIL!
However at least you (well, someone in your company, maybe not you) has the capability to upgrade the hardware Jira runs on if necessary. (Where I work we use Jira on-prem and it's fine speedwise.)
Also, on-prem means you can decide when to upgrade i.e. you are empowered to prevent the UI from changing daily (in our case at work we haven't upgraded for years).
