Atlassian has become much less of a caring company since they’ve gone public (or are preparing to). They’ve completely ruined SourceTree on Mac (an unnecessary interface redesign that took functionality away which still hasn’t been fixed almost 9 months later) and have been very careless in HipChat iOS client’s updates (shipping crippling bugs and not fixing them). They also used to be very friendly to feedback on Twitter but now are completely silent and don’t help or comment at all. Atlassian might’ve been a good company at some point but they aren’t any more. I’d rather use a fully open source solution that is mostly developed in the open (GitLab) than to be locked into a proprietary package (GitHub) or a downright user-hostile option (Bitbucket).

Would love to understand more about this. I doubt it has anything to do with us going public. I can understand some of your other points (though I'd love to spend the time to explain our perspective if you would like), but "user-hostile" in bitbucket I don't understand.

Happy to engage further if you email me. scott <at> atlassian.com.

Scott Farquhar, Atlassian CEO

RhodeCode is free and open source: https://rhodecode.com/open-source .

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#1 It plays nicely with existing trackers and CI tools.

#2 RhodeCode fully supports Git, Mercurial & SVN (hence no VCS lock-in).

+1 for BitBucket - I'm using it without any problems for many years!