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by llamaLord 1208 days ago
Just an FYI - we (Bitbucket cloud) recently shipped changes to the PR experience (rebuilt the PR diffing algorithm) which has increased the speed by ~95%.

100% aware we still have a way to go on performance, but we're literally orders of magnitude faster than even 12 months ago, with another order of magnitude on the cards this year, especially for larger customers (250+ users).
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eastbound 1208 days ago
Can you please share why you don’t have a file list on a left panel (like in IntelliJ, Windows Explorer or even Bitbucket DC) while reviewing PRs? Do stats show that people prefer to be shown a long diff with a tiny tab on the top-right that shows the list of files?

Wouldn’t that be a UX worth improving? (For us, we’ve attempted the move 3 times, but developers keep rejecting BBCloud because of the annoying UI - mostly the missing treeview to navigate files).

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llamaLord 1208 days ago
To be 100% honest - I don't have an answer for you on that. My teams focus primarily on CI/CD and the new extensibility tooling we're building (allowing customers to basically add their own features specific to their use-cases, like the plugin system for Server, but simpler).

If you shoot me an email I can connect you with the PM who manages the PR experience directly - they're doing a lot of design work in this space and would be really keen to talk.

emunday@atlassian.com

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eastbound 1207 days ago
100% of private discussions with Atlassian are met with no resolution.

APIs are shit.

Confluence Cloud is shit.

Forge is shit.

Connect is shit.

“Contact us privately” => No thank you.

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llamaLord 1207 days ago
Hey I'm happy to have a public conversation about our API's and Forge as they're what I know about.

Can you give some specific examples of issues with those (in the context of Bitbucket?). ~1/4 of my teams are working in that space at the moment.

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gempir 1205 days ago
You still don't have basic features like Syntax Highlighting in Diffs.

Yes yes, you are promising it soon in an Experimental Labs release, but it's been 11 years. It's laughable and who knows if that will tank performance again.

You had a solid PR tool on bitbucket server and somehow took that and made it 100x worse on Bitbucket Cloud. The File picker and the way you navigated between files with keyboard shortcuts were GREAT.

Bitbucket Cloud is just a copy of a really old version of the Github PR viewer, but with a lot more problems and no updates.

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