📖 Developer Satisfaction 2026 Report

⚙️ Phabricator

tl;dr

Everyone uses Phabricator—96% of respondents have used Phabricator in the past year.
Satisfaction remains high with 79% of respondents satisfied with Phabricator, down slightly from last year's 82%
Search – 16% of open answers were related to search.

# Phabricator use over the past year

“In the past year, have you used Wikimedia Phabricator?”
last year

Of the 139 who opted into answering questions about Phabricator:

the majority (96%) used Phabricator during the past year. (similar to last year)
2% did not use Phabricator during the past year
2% were unsure

# Phabricator satisfaction

“How satisfied are you with Phabricator?”
last year

Of the survey takers who indicated they had used Phabricator in the past year, and responded,

the majority (79%) of respondents said they were satisfied with Phabricator
11% said they were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
10% said they were dissatisfied

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# Phabricator satisfaction (by role)

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# Phabricator satisfaction (by tenure)

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# Phabricator satisfaction (by commit activity on Gerrit)

Of the survey takers who indicated they had used Phabricator in the past year, respondents with more commit activity on Gerrit were more satisfied (and very satisfied) with Phabricator than the other two groups; but all three groups had a majority of respondents indicate they were satisfied with Phabricator. The results are similar to last year.

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# Phabricator improvements

“What single feature or bugfix would you most like to see prioritized in Phabricator?”

Search

16% of people mentioned "search" as the feature they'd love to see prioritized.

I think I'd like to see the "advanced search", aka the search we all should use all the time, made a bit easier to use

Workboards

Workboards feel weird and are spammy on updates, but we use them *a lot* in our day to day prioritization so it could use some love.

Emojis

8% of people mentioned wanting emoji reactions to individual comments.

Awarding tokens to comments (https://we.phorge.it/T15048)!

Reactions to comments. (Mainly to ack a message without adding new comments)

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# Feedback

“Please share any other feedback you may have about Phabricator”
last year

Also search

Fewer answers to this question, no big themes stood out, but 7% of responses were, once again, about search.

I love phabricator. It may be difficult to find things, because there simply is soo much stuff we keep track of