[rbbitbucket]

I'm a product manager on the Bitbucket team.

For the first issue you mention, it sounds like you might be using an older version as this has been improved in a couple of respects in the last few releases. Specifically, the create pull request menu item (and it's siblings) are no longer collapsed in the sidebar. There is also a create pull request button on the pull request list page, and recently updated branches have a create pull request button on the personal dashboard shipped in Bitbucket Server 4.10.

Regarding frequent repos, I'm not entirely clear on where you're encountering this issue. If you send a screenshot to rbarnes atlassian com (spaces -> at, dot) I'll be happy to follow up with the team. We have some repo findability improvements in the works so it's a good time to make sure we haven't missed a pain point.

On the markup front, I hear ya. History makes it a little tricky to resolve in a way that will satisfy all, but we're looking at where editor UIs can converge to.