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Comment by piotrkaminski

10 years ago

Thanks for checking out Reviewable, and sorry it didn't work out for you. It's definitely a more complex tool than plain PRs but you also get a lot more functionality in return.

If you checked it out before I added the interactive onboarding (aka butterflies) and on-demand help you might want to try (yet) again, since I've been told it makes it a lot more approachable. Otherwise, and if you have the time, I'd love to sit down with you (virtually or otherwise) to do a short user study so I can better understand the UX pain points and maybe fix them.

As for the badge, it's actually mostly there to help developers find their way to the review. In public repos, it's also the marketing payment for the otherwise free service, but in private repos I can switch it off for you (the flag doesn't have a UI yet).

I'm always looking to improve Reviewable, but in the end it's unabashedly opinionated too, and sometimes those opinions will clash -- I'm OK with that. I'd rather make a tool that some people will love than an enterprise monster that everyone will love to hate. :)