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Phabricator by Phacility is a free, open source software development platform offering supported cloud-based deployment and a suite of integrated tools for multiple users and developer teams, spanning code review, auditing, repository publishing, task management, chat, CLI access and API scripting

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Software Engineer

The ability to view code side-by-side; intelligent diff calculation; macros make reviewing fun; simple, intuitive and easy to understand state machine for the commit.

Principal Architect

Phabricator makes it really easy for you to move from setup to creating tasks and projects. It's secure, open source, multi-functional and honestly just amazing.

Dayforce Support Analyst III

Definitely a great experience. I would recommend Phabricator to all my friends who work in different industries.

Phabricator does a great job surfacing all the information like passing/failing tests. Your git stack is avaialble as part of the diff review, lets you see how the feature is evolving.

Manager II, Growth Marketing

Easy to use great open source option for code submission and review tool for code changes and approval processes.

Expert

A fantastic way to improve product and process areas.

I really like the interface of Phabricator. It's definitely user friendly.

Associate QA Engineer

UI is meh, no auto refreshes or auto updates on boards make it frustrating. I have to manually refresh the page in order to see comments on tickets.

DevOps Engineer

Phabricator's interface is incredibly confusing.

I have fundamental problems with the way that Phabricator is designed. First, Phabricator is deployed as a Git repository and extensive amounts of manual setup.

Line Producer & Sysops Admin

It's a bit confusing at first, since the information can be presented in different style, at different places and, therefore, can be interpreted in different ways.

Senior Developer

No longer maintened, it has an old structure and not enough new features implemented by competitors.

GitHub

Acuity Scheduling

Super useful software, that's really well built with the option to make it more serious or leave little developer quips in.

Phabricator is the best hands down

Definitely a great experience.  I would recommend Phabricator to all my friends who work in different industries. 

Better than Github

I'm happy with the solution, but I sometime feel frustrated not being able to address/find proper solutions to what seems to be simple/common situations for this kind of tool

A powerful tool that needs fine tuning

I mostly use phabricator on Post-release of applications and also project management with front-end and back-end developers. The application sets the importance of my use case and can go deeper in thought. It made my decision-making capacity easier.

Phabricator is phab....it's simply awesome

Must have if use monorepo

For a free service, Phabricator is okay, but realize that Phacility, its parent company, is largely a one-man show. I wouldn't entrust my company's productivity to something with that sort of "bus factor." 

Be aware that if you *are* using Phabricator because it's free, Phacility doesn't respond to any feedback from you. Which I suppose is fair, given that it has to make money somehow.

I have trouble thinking of reasons to use Phabricator over integrated platforms like GitLab (and even GitHub) that offer a more comprehensive, more thoroughly documented, more robustly backed experience.

Maximal pain for minimal gain

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Esy development, old techniques

go-to change management tool

Overall, I have enjoyed phabricator more than any of the alternatives I have used — it makes code review feel intuitive and lightweight; and integrate it in my daily workflow. 

My favourite code review too

No live update make this tool frustrating 

It's been good. Has most things in one tool (tasks, project management, code review, code explorer, paste bin etc).


Simple and efficient

A fantastic way to improve product and process areas. 

I avoided having to use it if at all possible and am glad we moved to Trello

For Engineers

best tool to use for Tech stacks

It's a good product to have all of the bug reports in one place.

Engineers

Senior DevOps Engineer

Justin:                                                Hi. I'm Justin, DevOps engineer, and I give Phabricator a two out of five. For more reviews like this click below. At the time, we looked to GitLab and a couple of similar products and considering Phabricator, as well. We ultimately decided on Phabricator because it had the features we wanted at a price tag that we could afford. We mainly chose Phabricator because of its Mercurial integrations. We use the Mercurial version control system at my company and not a lot of other companies supported it. That plus the price tag, plus some additional capabilities around code review, gave us what we were looking for.
                                                       Getting started with Phabricator is definitely not an easy process. The only documentation they have is their official documentation, which is a little bit spotty. Phabricator is installed by cloning to Git Repository. There are no system packages or anything like that. It was a little surprising because packages like GitLab, which are considerably bigger, have everything consolidated into a single package. After the repository is installed, you need to manually install, configure a variety of different services. It took quite a while, and it was a very difficult process to finish.
                                                       If you're thinking about getting Phabricator, be aware of the company that develops it, Phacility, is largely a one-man operation. While Evan Prieslty is definitely a very capable developer and Evan Priestly's been able to make, I would not personally interest my company's productivity to something that's backed by more or less a single person. Consider it, too, that the overall trajectory of Phabricator is geared more toward paying customers. If you're not paying for their support, you are not going to get any feature requests or support of any sort.

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