It is getting close to 2 years since SRCTREEWIN-2093 was filed. SourceTree has only been on a downward slope since then.

However, today's release 1.8.1 finally breaks the camel's back by making it worse in every way possible. One wonders how such a large corp can fail so badly with engineering for so long.

Here are some tweets and comments from the issue that give you a sense of how bad the issues are:

Its gotten even slower..

Now needs an Atlassian account login, which doesnt work..

@sourcetree Latest update completely broke the app. Requires me to log in again but the page to log into an existing account never loads. — Kyle Tolle (@kyletolle) February 17, 2016

PSA: do not upgrade to SourceTree 2.2. It now requires registration with Atlasssian, which straight-up doesn’t work. — Dave DeLong (@davedelong) February 16, 2016

@Atlassian You've effectively locked me out of SourceTree, and your proposed contact form isn't for tech support? pic.twitter.com/d8ntcYDIYU — Stephen Bell (@stephenjbell) February 17, 2016

@sourcetree Don't try to cover it up. This was not a beta. You don't push a beta out as a normal update to every user. More QA please. — Cody Watkins (@cody_watkins) February 17, 2016

GitFlow icon was removed...

@sourcetree Why did you remove the GitFlow option in the top toolbar? Can't find it after i updated @sourcetree? — Martin Landsem (@mlandsem_ls) February 17, 2016

@sourcetree it's not only the gitflow bugs and missing icons. the whole (1.8) app is very slow and buggy. don't you run beta tests? — Sebastian Walter (@evilbaschdi) February 17, 2016

@sourcetree …. can barely tell which branch I’m on; you appear to have removed the gitflow button. I mean everything that worked is gone. — Andrei Pop (@andreipop) February 16, 2016

Mega slow and buggy release of the latest @sourcetree. Do not upgrade. Not impressed. Moved to @GitKraken. — Dan Wilkinson (@danjwilkinson) February 17, 2016

Cant even do a commit..

Yay, the latest version of SourceTree crashes when you stage a file for commit, meaning it's basically unusable. — Ben Sizer (@kylotan) February 16, 2016

@sourcetree Hey i updated to 1.8.1 this morning, it crashes every 2 minutes... literrally, using windows 8.1 — Alex (@FollowDiaXIs) February 17, 2016

Mega slow and buggy release of the latest @sourcetree. Do not upgrade. Not impressed. Moved to @GitKraken. — Dan Wilkinson (@danjwilkinson) February 17, 2016

Like the above tweeter, I have switched to [GitKraken](http://www.gitkraken.com/) which is super fast and made by a bunch of people who seem to care.