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Ask HN: Apps used for code review?

2 points by andrethegiant ↗ HN
I'm wondering what other people out there use to conduct code reviews.

Do you use the default web view in GitHub/GitLab? Or a native app? Something else?

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cimmanom
We use the default view in Bitbucket. My biggest gripes are:

1) Its diffing algorithm is mediocre and tends to interleave changes a few lines at a time instead of showing blocks replaced, which can make the code very difficult to read through (you can open up a side-by-side diff, which is more legible, but is available only in a modal and has to be closed in order to leave comments - awful UX)

2) Any new commit added to the pull request hides all previous comments even on unaffected files - they can still be found in the "activity" tab but without full file context.

3) Bitbucket collapses code more than N lines away from changed lines (good) but only expands 10 lines at a time if you want more context... slowly (awful if you need to get through 300 lines to find out which class this method belongs to).