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by roknovosel 2332 days ago
I've had an idea for some time now to create a website that would act as a better codereview.stackexchange.com. It would incorporate some of the features of the GitHub Pull Request system like inline commenting and reactions.

I arrived at this idea from two directions. The first direction is that I sometimes try to code review some of the questions over at CodeReview SE, and the whole thing feels unergonomic. I dislike scrolling up and down to check the code and constantly losing track of the things I'm reviewing. This is where I think inline commenting would help. Also, there is not a lot of room for discussion. You only get those comments below the review, where you only have a few characters to argue your point. The second direction is that I produce code snippets (programming homework, short snippets at work, etc.) which I would like to submit for review. I don't always want to submit it to the entire internet for review. I just want to get a private link to the code review, which I can share with my colleagues so they can review it. Kind of like a reviewable PasteBin.

Some of the features I would like to add: importing files from GitHub for reviewing and users could import their unanswered CodeReview SE questions for another review.

1 comments

I thought about the same thing! I think having your code reviewed is one of the fastest ways to improve and at the same time, it's currently very hard to have it done.

I really dislike CodeReview SE for many reasons though, I don't think this Q&A format is suitable for doing CRs

Hey, what kind of things do you dislike about the CodeReview SE and what would you like to see in an improved code review system?