Show HN: Visibly – More Collaborative and Efficient Code Reviews on GitHub
&gt;<i>See reviewer presence so that you can see if someone is already reviewing and avoid unnecessary pings.</i><p>&gt;<i>Visibly values privacy and security above all else</i><p>These two things seem squarely at odds. Personally, I don&#x27;t want my code review tool announcing to developers when I&#x27;m looking at their PR.<p>The fact that it&#x27;s a Chrome extension would also be a big blocker for me. I run a dev team, and I wouldn&#x27;t ask any of my teammates to install a browser extension to participate in code reviews, especially one that&#x27;s only available for Chrome.<p>I care a lot about code reviews [0], but the features here don&#x27;t really resonate with me.<p>- Blocking vs. non-blocking: This is useful, but the default should be that a comment is blocking. Otherwise, it makes the default that all the reviewer&#x27;s notes are optional unless they go out of their way to mark them as important.<p>- Thread status history: I think the status history is much less important than the status <i>right now</i>. In other words, I&#x27;d like to know if a review is blocked on the author or reviewer. I&#x27;m not that interested in what the status was yesterday.<p>- Metrics: I worry that these focus on the wrong thing. I&#x27;m trying to maximize usefulness of my review rather than speedrun through them to improve my PR time.<p>One of the huge gaps in Github&#x27;s tool is the ability to do multi-round reviews (e.g., &quot;show me what&#x27;s changed since my last round of notes&quot;). You can kind of bend Github to show you the right diff, but then it can&#x27;t show the comments in a sensible way. Two tools that solve this well are CodeApprove[1] and Reviewable[2].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mtlynch.io&#x2F;tags&#x2F;code-review&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mtlynch.io&#x2F;tags&#x2F;code-review&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeapprove.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeapprove.com</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reviewable.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reviewable.io</a>