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Re:Dear GitHub by mplewis on Thursday January 14, 2016 @04:54PM (#10904857)
Bitbucket kills GitHub issues with these two features:

- Multiple assignees for an issue - An "Approve" button so that maintainers can stamp a PR with the seal of approval

Re:Dear GitHub by diezge on Thursday January 14, 2016 @04:56PM (#10904890)
Surprised I didn't see my personal favourite mentioned - the unlimited free private repos!
Re:Dear GitHub by minimaxir on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:01PM (#10904957)
To be fair, GitHub has to make money.

None of the complaints are about the GitHub business model, which is IMO pretty fair.

Re:Dear GitHub by diezge on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:08PM (#10905016)
True, I guess with Atlassian it's different as their actual flagship product is Jira (and I assume the people who buy the paid-for BB packages are loyal to BB due to things like the free repos so it evens itself out).
Re:Dear GitHub by hobarrera on Friday January 15, 2016 @11:04AM (#10910090)
GitLab offers pretty much the same as GitHub and is free (as in FLOSS). Their hosted version also offers free unlimited private repositories.
Re:Dear GitHub by earlz on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:12PM (#10905064)
I just wish that bitbucket's UI was half as smooth as Github. Sure, it's not terrible, but it has a lot of rough edges.
Re:Dear GitHub by msbarnett on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:18PM (#10905123)
I'm completely comfortable calling BitBucket's UI/UX terrible.
Re:Dear GitHub by 33degrees on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:28PM (#10905217)
Not just bitbucket, but most of Atlassian's products, IMO. We switched from Slack to Hipchat at work recently, and the rough edges constantly irritate me.
Re:Dear GitHub by msbarnett on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:44PM (#10905346)
Definitely. I'm convinced any actual usage of Jira must happen purely by accident, given its incomprehensible User Experience.
Re:Dear GitHub by fidget on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:01PM (#10904952)
Github kills Bitbucket with this one feature: uptime
Re:Dear GitHub by polysaturate on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:13PM (#10905074)
...and speed in my experience. Both the web UI and push/pull.
Re:Dear GitHub by danielsamuels on Thursday January 14, 2016 @06:45PM (#10905772)
I've used Bitbucket for years and I've never seen "multiple assignees for an issue" as something which is available. I've just looked at a couple of our (private) repositories and I still can't see how you would do it. Either that feature doesn't exist or it's used in an extremely obscure manner.