46 engineers on Hacker News describe using Bitbucket first-hand: 7 endorse it, 10 regret it, 5 are mixed.
“Jira and Bitbucket were hands down the slowest of the bunch to boot”
regret · production · p2detar · 2025-02-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“BitBucket is like time-traveling back to 2010. ... updates on the Atlassian tickets for missing BitBucket features which had been years old”
regret · production · acdha · 2024-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our experience with BitBucket in the Netherlands has been that it's slow, almost as bad as Jira.”
regret · production · difosfor · 2023-04-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched from bitbucket to gitlab a few years ago, which was comparably better”
regret · production · tomxor · 2021-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I couldn't point you to anyone who likes BitBucket Server, but as long as you're on the CLI and don't have to use the terrible web UI too much, it sort of works.”
mixed · production · foobarbazetc · 2021-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to github from Bitbucket because the latter was not up to scratch at all.”
regret · production · secondcoming · 2020-06-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I really regret going with Atlassian here; I would have advised against it if I knew about this.”
regret · production · jhomedall · 2019-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Bitbucket (which was called something else before) does have a few nice features”
mixed · production · actionowl · 2018-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“pretty (80%) happy with the decision... The only issue with BitBucket Server is that it (inexplicably) does not have a commit compare view.”
mixed · production · foobarbazetc · 2018-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when you start with game development, you will reach the repository limits quite fast.”
regret · personal · zubspace · 2017-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“BitBucket has been a great private hosted Git repository for us, we have at least 150+ repositories”
endorse · production · manyxcxi · 2017-01-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using bitbucket at work, and their UI is the worst. I mean, you can't even close a PR after a rebase.”
regret · production · Fiahil · 2016-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Well we switched from Stash/BitBucket to it and are still happy”
regret · production · merb · 2016-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Bitbucket allows unlimited repositories which is far far better for our workflow (Java + Maven)”
mixed · production · agentgt · 2016-09-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We used PR based review before, but we found it is hard and inefficient when many changes are required. Its hard to see whether comments is being addressed in Bitbucket PR.”
regret · production · oahziur · 2016-04-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“BB is pretty great though, so aside from the social factor, the functionality is pretty much the same.”
endorse · production · purephase · 2015-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use them here at Mammoth Data, as their pricing model is more economical for what we do.”
endorse · production · mindcrime · 2015-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“HipChat for communication, Bitbucket for code repository et al.”
endorse · production · semerda · 2013-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using the prevent force push hook for Atlassian's Stash on my team to avoid situations like this.”
endorse · production · blktiger · 2013-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's pretty great, but it lacks community.”
mixed · personal · rolleiflex · 2012-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As a bitbucket user I can say that I've been using it for about 14 months and I can only recall one outage.”
endorse · personal · 1.2 yr · padseeker · 2012-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm now very happy that BitBucket has a git interface (I prefer BB to Github for closed-source, personal projects)”
endorse · personal · SoftwareMaven · 2012-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched from Bit bucket to Gerrit internally”
neutral · production · jeena · 2026-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wrote quite a few small tools to "integrate" with other stuff we use (Jira, BitBucket, Toggl).”
neutral · production · mbork_pl · 2023-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when BitBucket removed Mercurial support we switched to git”
neutral · production · happymellon · 2023-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Bitbucket at work. If we switched to some other forge next week I would not care.”
neutral · production · nativecoinc · 2023-03-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm glad you're working on BB. We switched to GitHub a year ago”
neutral · production · plonk · 2023-03-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we have been working with a simple PR process (first Phabricator, then Bitbucket) ever since”
neutral · production · victorNicollet · 2022-03-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our tools are bitbucket, appveyor, octopus deploy, youtrack, confluence, zen desk”
neutral · production · keithnz · 2020-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“enforce it via Jenkins pipeline on every commit that get's pushed to our internal BitBucket Git server.”
neutral · production · 2 yr · wisemanwillhear · 2019-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“deploys from gitlab/bitbucket pipelines”
neutral · production · apeacox · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also use Google Docs and Sheets and Bitbucket for my personal stuff”
neutral · personal · appleiigs · 2018-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I obviously keep my project version controlled on Bitbucket and we run our usual backups on the servers and DBs”
neutral · production · mkane848 · 2016-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did not use AWS but just Bitbucket, git pull and the site is published”
neutral · production · bikamonki · 2016-05-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Bitbucket at my company and Jenkins Enterprise as well.”
neutral · production · stuff4ben · 2016-05-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to Bitbucket because it would be too expensive to keep using Github.”
neutral · production · alfg · 2016-05-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“shifting repos over to Bitbucket, but it looks like that'll have to accelerate that now”
neutral · production · 1 yr · politician · 2016-02-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to hosted Confluence, JIRA, BitBucket/git.”
neutral · production · nwatson · 2015-09-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use BitBucket since we're a small shop from a developer count standpoint”
neutral · production · SystemOut · 2015-01-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it was a bitbucket repo I thought was private, but somehow ended up public”
neutral · personal · dilap · 2014-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use bitbucket, so I'm not sure how similar the APIs there are to Stash”
neutral · production · idlemind · 2014-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We also use Atlassian Stash and JIRA for a client project”
neutral · production · hypr_geek · 2014-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Bitbucket/Git - code repository”
neutral · production · AH4oFVbPT4f8 · 2013-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when we're done, I put it onto BitBucket (pay per user), so whatever I put onto BitBucket is then free of charge.”
neutral · production · domness · 2013-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So I've been using Bitbucket, which is fine and all”
neutral · personal · rolleiflex · 2012-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my organisation push on github ( and bitbucket )”
neutral · production · camus · 2012-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?