[codeapprove]

Bias warning: I created CodeApprove to give GitHub reviews a better UI.

GitHub PR review UI is … fine. But it has very little depth. Unlike an IDE it’s hard to grow into a power user of it. It seems to be optimized for simple reviews with 1-2 rounds of a few comments each.

When you do dozens of code reviews every week you want something more. You want something snappy and dense with keyboard shortcuts. You want something that draws your attention to where it’s needed and something that helps you ensure all your conversations reach resolution.

So there’s a lot of room for improvement and GitHub hasn’t shown much interest in improving this area. So 3p UIs are stepping in (Graphite, CodeApprove, Reviewable, etc)