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After 10 years of using Phabricator at a previous company I am still shocked how bad GitHub is. This the industry standard?!

Too bad Phabricator is maintenance-only now https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phabricator

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Looks like a new community developed fork of Phabricator is up! I've never used it but glad to see the project continues.

https://we.phorge.it/

I tried poking around but it looks like you have to be logged into to view the source, and registration requires manual approval. :/

I assume this is fallout from dealing with LLM content scrapers.

Yes, exactly. Even though you can clone the git repos anonymously, or look at the Github mirror.

https://we.phorge.it/phame/post/view/8/anonymous_cloning_dis... https://we.phorge.it/phame/post/view/9/anonymous_cloning_has...

I only used phabricator on a side project that other devs, with meta history, had set up. And although not a heavy user, I rather liked it for being very basic which I thought was a very good thing.

My memory is fuzzy but I think it was on phab that I discovered and loved to use stacked merges. This is where you have a merge request into another open merge request etc. Super useful. Miss that in the git world.

Can't you simply make a PR against the other PR's branch?

Yes, but the UI isn’t great for it. When you make a change in a base branch and push all the branches ahead of it, GitHub litters the UI with “force push” activity, even when no one has even started reviewing the PRs yet. This creates tons of visual noise in the PRs to sift through.

I, for one, despised phabricator (in comparison to GitHub) when I had to use it last. But that was at least 50% from also having to use svn

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