Gitter, chat for GitHub, is now public beta

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&#x27;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&#x27;s an interesting concept and could provide an alternative to IRC for GitHub projects.<p>I&#x27;ve subscribed with an account I created specifically for Gitter. I definitely won&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitter.zendesk.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;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&#x27;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&#x27;m looking forward to the apps. :)

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Is there any way to join a chat for a public repository which you are not a contributor to?

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&#x27;m +1 on emillon&#x27;s mailing list idea

This is actually pretty cool. I&#x27;d be curious to see how well it&#x27;s adopted, though, since the majority of dev chat that I see occurs in IRC.

Ditch IRC for a proprietary web application? No thanks.

Any word on either a. an android client or b. an API to make an android client with?

Office Space references always a nice touch!