Hey Graphite team,
My team has been using Graphite for over a year, and I really appreciate the ongoing work you’ve put into modernizing the review page UI.
That said, I want to share some very honest feedback: the new PR page has become a major pain point for us, to the extent that it’s slowing down our workflow. It’s frustrating enough that I’m taking time to write this even though I’m already swamped with work every day.
1. Resolved reviews becoming invisible is extremely disruptive
• “Resolved” does not mean the comment is no longer meaningful for future reference.
• A common scenario: someone pings me in a thread, then someone else resolves it. I click the notification and land on a PR where the thread is completely hidden. Total waste of time.
• Another real scenario: someone resolves a comment incorrectly (e.g., due to misunderstanding the context). Now I can’t even find my own review comment.
• Because of this issue alone, I often have to open the vanilla GitHub PR page just to do a proper review.
2. Stale and historical reviews are also too hard to find
Code review is supposed to be part of the code history. Hiding or burying old reviews destroys the context that helps teams understand decisions, changes, and reasoning.
3. Please keep the option to switch back to the old UI
The old UI was straightforward, predictable, and made reviews efficient. The new experience is noticeably slower and more confusing.