This is why.. they are in midst of moving to a new platform: 
[https://bitbucket.org/blog/encountering-some-turbulence-on-bitbuckets-journey-to-a-new-platform](https://bitbucket.org/blog/encountering-some-turbulence-on-bitbuckets-journey-to-a-new-platform)

&amp;#x200B;

[Bitbucket message](https://preview.redd.it/zgvuatq7j4b71.png?width=1864&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=3273c52adc1296e9a0b9642221f234368e6c8c04)

...and also it looks like Bitbucket presents it like a feature. Any ideas why is it taking such a long time? I'm always doing fast forward merge, which should be 1 milisecond operation from git perspective.

Merging pull requests takes forever