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Bitbucket kills GitHub issues with these two features:

- Multiple assignees for an issue - An "Approve" button so that maintainers can stamp a PR with the seal of approval

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Surprised I didn't see my personal favourite mentioned - the unlimited free private repos!

To be fair, GitHub has to make money.

None of the complaints are about the GitHub business model, which is IMO pretty fair.

True, I guess with Atlassian it's different as their actual flagship product is Jira (and I assume the people who buy the paid-for BB packages are loyal to BB due to things like the free repos so it evens itself out).

GitLab offers pretty much the same as GitHub and is free (as in FLOSS). Their hosted version also offers free unlimited private repositories.

I just wish that bitbucket's UI was half as smooth as Github. Sure, it's not terrible, but it has a lot of rough edges.

I'm completely comfortable calling BitBucket's UI/UX terrible.

Not just bitbucket, but most of Atlassian's products, IMO. We switched from Slack to Hipchat at work recently, and the rough edges constantly irritate me.

Definitely. I'm convinced any actual usage of Jira must happen purely by accident, given its incomprehensible User Experience.

Github kills Bitbucket with this one feature: uptime

...and speed in my experience. Both the web UI and push/pull.

I've used Bitbucket for years and I've never seen "multiple assignees for an issue" as something which is available. I've just looked at a couple of our (private) repositories and I still can't see how you would do it. Either that feature doesn't exist or it's used in an extremely obscure manner.

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