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I also don't see anything groundbreaking about Bitbucket as a Git repo interface. GitHub is miles ahead in both polish and mindshare. Free private repos used t

I also don't see anything groundbreaking about Bitbucket as a Git repo interface. GitHub is miles ahead in both polish and mindshare. Free private repos used to be the one thing keeping me (and from conversations, several people I know) on Bitbucket and once GitHub offered those as well, there was no incentive to stay. The Mercurial support was probably another unique feature they had from way back but they seem to have decided to remove that too.

freedomben 7y ago
Yep, it was private repos for me. Once Gitlab came about and offered free private repos I bailed as quickly as I could from Bitbucket.
zzzeek 7y ago
yes, at the beginning, we thought github and bitbucket would be in a healthy competition for features and polish. But then Atlassian bought Bitbucket, and their agenda was, "make BB as awful as possible so we can steal whoever into our crappy corporate software" and that was that. I had to move not just because the issue tracker was garbage but also because Bitbucket's UX became horrible, not just the slowness but also the layout was very broken, having to read diffs inside of a tiny scrolling pane and things like that.