Gitter Blog
blog.gitter.im · Company blog · on HN since 2014
The Gitter team's company blog, covering product updates for the developer chat service and its move to GitLab and then Element/Matrix.
What HN saysHN links it for Gitter's acquisition announcements; commenters mention broken blog links and worry that a chat tool aimed at developers has a small paying niche.
18HN people shared it
14linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1GitLab acquires Gitter6 people · 45 points · first shared 2017 · 5 comments on HN
- 2Gitter Is Moving to Element5 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Gitter is going fully native Matrix in Feb. 20233 people · 7 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 4Homepage2 people · first shared 2017
- 5Gitter is now free for teams of up to 251 people · 9 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 6Gitter just added KaTeX support1 people · 7 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Gitter: Now without GitHub write access1 people · 5 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 8Unit Testing Redis Lua Scripts1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9Gitter has fully migrated to Matrix1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 10Gitter element acquisition1 people · first shared 2020
- 11Gitter public beta1 people · first shared 2014
- 127e1c7194 347e 47f1 84d1 8149de853e031 people · first shared 2017
What HN people wrote when they linked it
romanovcode · 2017-03-15
This leads to 404. Their official blog says nothing about it (http://blog.gitter.im/) and Twitter also says nothing about it (https://twitter.com/gitchat).
orsenthil · 2017-03-15
The blog post is now up: http://blog.gitter.im/
hardwaresofton · 2022-04-27
Well they did join Element[0]... So it's not like they weren't popular.
That said, I'd worry about a chat solution being too focused on a small niche like developers (who often aren't that interested in paying for tools, even if they're high quality).
[0]: https://blog.gitter.im/2020/09/30/gitter-element-acquisition/
detaro · 2021-09-02
(Although gitter.im isn't really a "third-party" adopting it, given they were aquired by Matrix developers: https://blog.gitter.im/2020/09/30/gitter-element-acquisition/)
wut42 · 2020-09-30
The correct URL is https://blog.gitter.im/2020/09/30/gitter-element-acquisition/
samschooler · 2020-09-30
Don't know if you have access to the Gitter side but as of now, the blog post is 404ing https://blog.gitter.im/gitter-element-acquisition/
vikp · 2017-07-04
In the original blog post announcing the Gitlab acquisition (http://blog.gitter.im/2017/03/15/gitter-gitlab-acquisition/), there's mention of open sourcing the mobile apps -- "Next piece of wow: we will be open sourcing all of the Gitter. That’s right, the web application, the mobile apps, the whole nine yards, free and open."
jordanmoconnor · 2017-03-15
Confirmed on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gitchat/status/842058103571001344
Link to the live post: http://blog.gitter.im/2017/03/15/gitter-gitlab-acquisition/
timanglade · 2017-03-15
Tim, Marketing at GitLab here. Sorry for the false start, a draft leaked out via Twitter but the announcement was scheduled to run at 10 Pacific.
You can read Gitter’s post: http://blog.gitter.im/2017/03/15/gitter-gitlab-acquisition/
And here is what VentureBeat had to say about the news: http://venturebeat.com/2017/03/15/gitlab-acquires-software-chat-startu…
UPDATE: and here is GitLab’s post with a few more details: https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/15/gitter-acquisition/
mynewtb · 2017-03-15
They mention those in http://blog.gitter.im/2017/03/15/gitter-gitlab-acquisition/
haldean · 2017-03-15
It's up now at http://blog.gitter.im/2017/03/15/gitter-gitlab-acquisition/
dang · 2017-03-15
Url changed from http://blog.gitter.im/p/7e1c7194-347e-47f1-84d1-8149de853e03/, which disappeared.
mydigitalself · 2014-02-04
Hi all,
For more information: http://blog.gitter.im/gitter-public-beta/
Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us with comments/feedback.
Arathorn · 2020-09-30
Well, the main news is that Gitter is going to natively join Matrix. We've been talking about doing this for a few years, but it never got to the top of the todo list on either side - plus frankly we're breaking new ground by making a large existing network natively speak Matrix (complete with incorporating room archives, etc).
Others (e.g. Rocket.Chat) have had a go at natively speaking Matrix but it's hard to be the first to do so unless both sides of the bridge are prioritising it and focusing on making it a success - and an obvious way of getting aligned is if you are on the same team. So when the opportunity came up for Gitter to move from GitLab to Element, it was a no-brainer way to ensure a successful native bridge for Gitter into Matrix. But we'd probably have got around to it anyway... it'd just have had a lower chance of success.
As another datapoint: Gitter was already looking (independently) at using Element to replace their native mobile apps, which otherwise they were having to deprecate (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/-/issues/2281).
Edit: another relevant link: https://blog.gitter.im/2020/09/30/gitter-element-acquisition/