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by tobinfekkes 10 days ago
I use Github extensively for my personal company, but I also use Azure DevOps (and all git-related features) extensively for a client's project. I keep seeing the Github issues being attributed to their move to Azure backend for "scale".

But we have no issues whatsoever with Azure Devops....ever. It's excellent. Seriously.

Does anyone know why the experience between Github and DevOps is so different, if they're supposed merging the two? Or at least seemingly related? Or are they not at all?

Or is it simply because Azure is "enterprise" and Microsoft cares about that more?
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9999gold 10 days ago
I find Azure DevOps UI/UX very janky. Like, the work items sometimes are loaded in the frontend only and sometimes there is a refresh, then the URL in the browser is not the same of the work tree I am seeing; sometimes there is a lot of flicker/redirects to sign in. The wysiwyg editor sometimes preserve the color themes of the person who opened, it seems. The markdown editor is view or edit only. I probably faced more issues but I won’t remember now. But to say there are no issues, and it’s excellent, I cannot relate, had to chime in. Yeah, it works, but feels like an unpolished product, especially considering the resources it has. The uptime is better than GitHub’s, though.
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lukeschlather 10 days ago
The flicker/signin redirects are a regression introduced post-Github acquisition. Really just evidence of the product being abandoned, or possibly of general operational decline at Microsoft which is affecting all their products. Definitely since the acquisition, both products have declined but Github has declined more to the point where I might prefer Azure DevOps.
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tobinfekkes 9 days ago
I understand that there are UI/UX issues, and I mostly agree with all of your points. There are markdown issues, I get the redirects too, the copy/paste color scheme affects me when I paste from dark mode and then see my co-worker's screen in light mode.

I guess I was meaning less the user-facing stuff, and more the underlying architecture, the uptime, the general availability. Does the thing do what you expect it to do? Does it work? Is it on? Yes, for the most part it does what it says on the lid very well.

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