Been using Graphite all year. I had trouble adapting my GitHub mind to it at first and I still don’t love everything about Graphite, but _wow_ is Graphite’s PR review page organized better than GitHub. GitHub’s new PR stack is superior (atomic merges are life-changing) and having one fewer tokens to manage CLI to install is fantastic, but I’m still mostly Graphite because the page is just organized better.

Specifically, graphite wins on:

- I land on the page and immediately see an overview of my whole PR stack: what’s in the stack, what’s passing, what’s failing, what’s draft, unresolved and total comments. I know exactly where to spend my time. GitHub PR stacks offer no such convenience.

- Description is below stack details, then code, and I never have to switch tabs or pages. This hierarchy makes sense: top of the page is broad whole stack details, and as we go down we get more specific. GitHub forces me to jump between pages to see all of this.

- Comments in a drawer are nice. Being able to quickly scan them helps me get a sense of what’s there, who’s commenting, I can jump between them quickly.

- Approval, request, labels, etc are also logically oriented at the top near other metadata. GitHub sprawls this around the page. It’s especially rough on mobile browser.

I just checked the new overview. It’s a step up. Curious to see if it helps the PR stack experience. I’d love to fully migrate off Graphite, the non-atomic merge is truly a nightmare across a large stack, but at the end of the day I haven’t been able to give up the UX gains of managing my work on Graphite compared to GitHub.