That's one hell of an authorization request. I see the reasoning in the sidebar, but I'm not really willing to take that kind of chance to try out a new chat service.
Looks nice, but what's the value prop over something like HipChat, which already integrates with a lot of different services?<p>For example, we currently use HipChat and feed in GitHub, New Relic, AirBrake, and CircleCI notifications into HipChat. How will Gitter improve that workflow?
It's an interesting concept and could provide an alternative to IRC for GitHub projects.<p>I've subscribed with an account I created specifically for Gitter. I definitely won't grant the level of access to my account that Gitter asks for currently[1].<p>[1] <a href="https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-Authenticating-with-GitHub" rel="nofollow">https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-Authe...</a>
The upside of IRC is not having to have so many different applications to chat with all the different people.<p>If I can use XChat for this, that would be bad-ass. Also, one important feature I think would be crucial is integrating with Google Chat (if you can). All developers use IRC or HipChat or Kato but then I have to deal with the buggers in the rest of my company that like to use GChat!
Been using Gitter with my Dev Group for a few weeks and we all love it and switched completely to it as our main Chat. It's worth a try and the integration of services like Trello and - for sure - Github is just great! Also Auto-Embedded Links (YouTube, SoundCloud, images (jpg, png, gif)). Really love it and I'm looking forward to the apps. :)
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Do you know if something similar exists for mailing lists?<p>ie for every github project you get a project mailing list to discuss development on a higher level than individual bug reports.
This is one of those ideas that seems so obvious. The solution looks great and the interface is solid. By the way, I'm +1 on emillon's mailing list idea