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[J]

@Rani Jaiswal any word on whether this is still in the pipeline?

[Deleted user]

Sadly we are now forced to use this view, as of 2/15. Clearly they did not test this new view with larger codebases, as it's REALLY annoying with long files names, long file names, etc...

[clement.moron]

Emoji length is counted wrong, when editing a PR the cursor jumps around one or two forward if they are emoji on the line. This is a known bug on most platforms, even twitter had it, but please, they fixed it 6 years ago...

[J]

@jarredc I usually want to see the files list first, but definitely use the other two tabs often.  Could a keyboard shortcut be added to switch tabs?  That would be immensely helpful.

[J]

The header that becomes sticky (the one with the Request Changes and Approve buttons on the right) when you scroll down used to have the branch name and PR destination (and merge status) shown on the left side of the header.  That was very useful.

For me that's disappeared now so that I have to scroll all the way back to the top to be reminded of the branch name I'm looking at.  Sometimes I have multiple PRs open at a time, and the at-a-glance keeps the workflow from being interrupted, as I don't have to sacrifice scroll position to know what I'm looking at.

Can that be brought back?  "plz", as the kids say :)

[J]

There is (or at least was last I looked) a way on the Labs page to switch off any experiment, including the new PR experience.  This may or may not apply depending on whether you're on Cloud or not, but I've been able to use it when necessary to use the old version.

[niallmuldoon]

Hi @jarredc,

Hitting this again today with a large PR :(

When is the old experience going offline?

Thanks,

Niall

[djb]

Two features I would like see fixed:

1. When the PR has been updated (i.e. a reviewer has approved it, or someone pushed an update), the page pops up a window letting me refresh the PR page. But it only refreshes the interior, not the build status. We have Jenkins builds which we trigger from BitBucket build, and we have branch permissions so we can only merge on a clean build. Using this refresh operation is insufficient - the page needs to refresh the build info as well so BB can enable the Merge button if all merge prerequisites are met.
2. in the build section in the right panel, there is an icon next to the build which looks like. refresh icon:

But it does not do what it implies - it is not an action button and it does not refresh the build status. Either use an icon that looks like a static build icon, or let me click that icon to refresh the status of the build. At present, I have to refresh the entire page -- which takes several seconds -- to see if the build has completed and whether it passed or not.

[Eugene Gubenkov]

After the recent update we were unable to find the self approve button in the Pull Requests UI -- is it gone for good?

[Jon]

@Dawid Majewski  if you find it unworkable and need a solution before Atlassian can roll out the feature, the Stylus chrome plugin is very handy and can be used to override the colors.  You do have to dig around in the DOM to find which classes to target, but it should be doable.  Hopefully they'll roll out the usability feature soon, but that may get you by til then.

(just make sure to grab Stylus, not the once-popular Stylish, as the latter is basically spyware)

[Himanshu Mistri]

I am expected batter side by side source code compare for the Pull Request, Why can't we can have a good and easy interface like a Gerrit source code review interface.

[Jon]

Having a small issue with the activity feed:

I pushed a commit 5 days ago, and then have pushed other commits since then, the most recent of which was about 15 minutes ago.  The item in the activity feed says:

Updated the pull request with 6 commits

<lists commit hashes here as links>

Jon - 5 days ago

While partially true, my coworkers reviewing were confused, thinking I hadn't committed anything more recently than 5 days ago.

Is there a way to have that bottom part include both the earliest and latest times it covers?  Maybe something like `5 days ago to 15 minutes ago`

[Jon]

w00t! thanks :)

[jarredc]

Thanks for keeping me honest here, @Jon

The ticket is in progress right now.

[jarredc]

There are a few different reasons these bugs are appearing, and we've been picking them off one by one over the last couple of months. The biggest remaining cause is simply that the PR itself is so large that we're not able to process the entire thing on the backend before it times out. If you're still seeing this issue, can you please reach out to our support team so that we add it's cause to the list of known issues we're working on?

[jarredc]

thanks for the follow up, @Eugene Husak

Right now single-file-mode is a way for us to improve handling really large PRs, but we're circling back to start virtualizing the diffs so that it is no longer necessary to only show a single file at a time. 

[Jon]

@jarredc any word on when this might be fixed?  

[Jon]

@jarredc thoughts on the scrolling issues?

[Jon]

I disagree and believe the new experience has a lot of promise.  I recently switched back to it (tried it before when it was even less baked than it is now) because a huge PR w/ many comments in the old experience just... wouldn't ever load.

The new experience may be lacking some features, but it has been steadily gaining some that were previously missing.  It also has some features that the old one didn't have (collapsible sticky headers, a file list that could be viewed alongside code rather than having it stuck near the top of one long page you'd have to scroll aaaaall the way back up to just to use what is essentially navigation).

True, it has a fair distance to go before it crosses the finish line.  I've posted a number of things that are pretty glaring in this comment section. And once I'm done with my current review, I'll be switching back to the old one until it is more fully-baked (or until it's foisted on us and the old one taken away).  Love me some Refined Bitbucket extension. :)

But the team has also greatly increased their responsiveness after the project management changeup, and having someone listen to their customers and demonstrate it's not just lip service by acting on the feedback is always heartening.

Have to agree about the banner though lol.  Maybe they just need more people hitting it.

[Jon]

I'm having trouble with the scrolling of the Activity card.  When there's more than a trivial amount of content in it, I'm unable to scroll easily.  If there were a scrollbar or other affordance to make it easy to scroll quickly to any point in the list, that would help a lot.

The vertical scrollbar appears to only work on the page itself, so I have to mouse over the card and sit and scroll for quite a while.  There's also no visual indicator of how far I've scrolled, so I don't know where in the list I am.  A scroll affordance that appears when scrolling and disappears shortly thereafter (but which could be dragged with the mouse to quickly get to any point in the content) would be extremely useful.

Also, the Activity filter UI not being sticky means that with more than a screen's worth of content, if you've scrolled down and want to filter, you have to scroll all the way back up to use it (and then scroll down again to find whatever you're after).  It would be nice if there were a way to access the filter without having to be at the top of the card.

[Jon]

If I get around to creating one for the new experience I will see if I can share it.

The old one is part of a custom extension our team uses and is very customized for our needs, so it wouldn't be really a good fit for sharing outside our company.  However, I can tell you that the portion of it I'm referring to is pretty simple - just storing key/value pairs of the dom id of the top comment in a thread, a boolean for whether it's been marked resolved or not, and a bit of jQuery to add a toggle button in the header of each top-level comment that persists the boolen and updates itself based on that boolean.  It shouldn't be too hard to put together something higher quality than the code I wrote (mine was pretty messy).

My hope is that the creator of the Refined Bitbucket chrome extension (still in active development) has something in the works for the new UI.  Probably they're waiting for it to settle down a bit before releasing something for it, if they plan on supporting it at all.

[brahmana]

@Jon  Please share the chrome extension if you create one.

Also if the old one that you mentioned in your earlier (April 2019) comment is still available, I would love to try that also.

If you can share the source, I would like to see if I can create a Firefox extension based on your Chrome extension.

[Jon]

Any update on being able to have consistent normal quotes?

[Jon]

Any update on this?

[Jon]

Any update on this regression?