[Ixiaus]

I love hg, and bitbucket is the best we've got - but man, the developers at BitBucket have their heads stuck in so deep in the sand!!!

GitHub "won" because the developers were not only innovative but they listened to their user base. BitBucket developers have, so far, just scoffed at my requests for changes to features that should be fundamentally different.

For example, the issues system. When you first hit the issues list it sorts by most recent date created; if I want to see the most critical tickets (sorted by priority) I have to click on the priority column; but wait, that first sorts it as least important first (wtf?) so I have to click it AGAIN to get the highest priority tickets.

I put in two support tickets on the matter, one asking for the default when hitting the page to be sort by priority (most critical first) so I can see WHAT IS MOST CRITICAL THAT NEEDS TO GET DONE NOW. If not the default, give a settings option so that I can set what the default to sort by could be! Their response? "Create a bookmark" - yeah, that's what I've done but I shouldn't have to do that. It's little shit like this that irks me about bbucket vs GitHub.

The second ticket has to do with that silliness that is sorting least important first when you first click on the column sort... Le sigh.

I still use it though because I prefer mercurial to git.

[StavrosK]

Why not just use hg-git with github? I use BitBucket for the private repo hosting, but, as a service, github blows BB out of the water.

[Ixiaus]

Primarily because BitBucket is slowly getting better and I would rather be on the native platform? Plus, we have all of our tickets in BBucket ATM and I'm not too keen on moving them over (I would probably hire a VA to do it, but still...).