# Bitbucket Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/bitbucket/ 28 people recommended Bitbucket in Hacker News comments, 7 had mixed feelings and 51 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 12 months, in 23 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Criticized more than recommended: critics call it slow, outage-prone and neglected since dropping Mercurial; those who recommend it cite its clean UI, reliability and tight Jira and Confluence integration. Summary written by Claude from the comments below. ## What people warn about - Slow performance (2 comments in the sample): "Bitbucket is okay to use, the main problem like with every Atlassian product is that it is dog slow." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344978)) "Bitbucket managed to be slow, annoying, and suffer more outages than github ever did." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137300)) - Outages and slow status updates (2 comments in the sample): "Love paying a premium for Bitbucket just to have their AI support insist everything’s fine—while every page except the status one is melting down." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891953)) "It took an hour for them to update the status page at all to mention there's something wrong" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45890774)) - Dropped Mercurial support (2 comments in the sample): "Atlassian acquired Bitbucket and let its Mercurial support wither and die." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229286)) "I was pretty happy with Bitbucket before they dropped Mercurial support" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595046)) - Seen as neglected, losing ground (2 comments in the sample): "Bitbucket is a neglected product that has lost ground to GitHub and GitLab." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345683)) "I don't think they can pretend that switching to git did very much for them" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006410)) ## Why people recommend it - Good Mercurial support (3 comments in the sample): "BitBucket, at the time, gave Github a good run for their money and had great Mercurial support and was what I preferred." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942838)) "I miss Bitbucket's mercurial offering." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843220)) "Loved Bitbucket's Mercurial offering." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843232)) - Clean, simple UI (3 comments in the sample): "I really thought it was _fine_ from a user perspective" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46214773)) "I find the UI incredibly simple and clear" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086028)) "it's been really awesome and clean" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335533)) - Reliable with no problems (3 comments in the sample): "bitbucket has never given us problems with several of our team using Firefox" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490534)) "Im using Bitbucket for years with no issues." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947410)) "it did its job, it didn’t break for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941270)) - Seamless Jira and Confluence integration (2 comments in the sample): "I ran our on-prem Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc etc." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335802)) "simply made diligent use of the full Atlassian suite" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369623)) ## Other Git forges people recommend - [Forgejo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/forgejo/): 321 recommend, 44 mixed, 52 criticize - [GitHub](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github/): 308 recommend, 299 mixed, 2153 criticize - [Codeberg](https://hackerapproved.com/p/codeberg/): 234 recommend, 64 mixed, 247 criticize - [GitLab](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gitlab/): 214 recommend, 84 mixed, 306 criticize ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://bitbucket.org/) ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Bitbucket", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bitbucket/ (28 recommend, 7 mixed, 51 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.