Phabricator Reviews

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.

Not all the features are available right away, so it does require a little configuration to ensure it works the way you want it to.

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

Features outside of code review and browsing code are quite rudimentary, and as a result I end up using other tools for task management, etc.

Phabricator is an easy to implement and free tool, that can be used as a task/bug manager/tracker. It's pretty versatile and offers various pre-installed tools/plugins, with a lot of possible parameters to play with in order to create Projects, related tasks and link this to your repository solution (we are using Git). It offers the possibility to work with lists or board (kan-ban style), it has a free sprint plug-in that allows to Phabricator to be used as a scrum tool. Being free and stand-alone, it allows integrators/developers to come up with their own scripts and/or plugins.

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. The development is slow and a lot of features requested by paying customers as much as free users seem to take a long time before being addressed. It's understandable but could be a downer for potential users. The community behind it is not as active as other solutions, so finding a solution to your problem could take time and effort.

It's simple. Things work well within the system. You can refer objects by just their ids. Code review is easy. Task and project management is simple Very good command line support

I love it. The only thing that others may not like is that it's not as full featured as JIRA. But that may be a feature

Good tool for users to contact and work with Engineers. Since Engineers might be staring at lines of code for hours, they will be slow to respond to emails. This is a good tool to contact them.

It looks very dated. It can be very hard to maneuver around if you are not familiar with the interface.

Phabricator is an open source product, not open core, so you're free to spin up an instance that has 100% of the available functionality. It has a broad set of tools, including some, like Herald, that are clever. Phacility is responsive to customer needs despite being such small company.

Phabricator is designed by developers for developers, and it shows. As someone who's gone from Ops to DevOps, nothing about it seems designed for someone like me. The names of the products are confusing and are probably supposed to be "funny." They aren't. Nothing about "Diffusion" screams "project repositories," for instance. The interface in general is not intuitive; I get frequent questions from...

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Works very smooth and has little to no issues performance wise

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

We used this software to help our company get organized with ordering supplies and keeping up with employee needs.

It was not easy to use. The engineers found it very useful for their flow, but regular employees had a hard time navigating and understanding how to make requests using the system

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