HipChat Blog
blog.hipchat.com · Company blog · on HN since 2010
The company blog of HipChat, the team chat service later bought by Atlassian, covering product news, scaling, and security incidents.
What HN saysHN links it for the 2017 security notice and breach, and for its post on scaling to a billion messages with CouchDB.
55HN people shared it
14linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1HipChat Will Grant Employers Access To 1-to-1 Chat History4 people · 157 points · first shared 2014 · 135 comments on HN
- 2HipChat security notice3 people · 143 points · first shared 2017 · 109 comments on HN
- 3They may just be chat bubbles, but they’re our chat bubbles2 people · 149 points · first shared 2012 · 41 comments on HN
- 4Atlassian HipChat was breached. Time to reset your password.2 people · 126 points · first shared 2015 · 16 comments on HN
- 5HipChat acquired by Atlassian2 people · 125 points · first shared 2012 · 50 comments on HN
- 6What we learned from putting a ridiculous billboard on 1012 people · 46 points · first shared 2011 · 17 comments on HN
- 7How HipChat scales to 1 Billion Messages2 people · 13 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 8HipChat: An update on this week2 people · 9 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 97 tips for making company shirts that people will actually wear2 people · 6 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 10Better Python Testing: Mocking AWS [video]2 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 11Customizable room notifications now in beta boom2 people · first shared 2015
- 12HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer1 people · 343 points · first shared 2013 · 117 comments on HN
- 13HipChat is now free for unlimited users1 people · 333 points · first shared 2014 · 203 comments on HN
- 14GitHub is making me lazy but I like it1 people · 53 points · first shared 2010 · 28 comments on HN
- 15We’re not like Yammer or Chatter, and we don’t want to be1 people · 37 points · first shared 2011 · 22 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
powdahound · 2011-04-08
Shirts are also great PR, prize rewards, and 'thank you' gifts for users who run into nasty bugs. We've had a lot of success and fun with our HipChat shirts. Our tips for others:
1. Buy high-quality shirts (American Apparel)
2. Buy small and women's sizes
3. Show some attitude, not company boilerplate
4. Buy from a local shop
5. Have a few different designs - people love having a choice
6. Make sure the shop saves the screens (cheaper to re-order in the future)
7. Quadruple check the spelling and capitalization :)
Full post: http://blog.hipchat.com/2010/08/19/7-tips-for-making-company-shirts-th…
hkchad · 2017-08-15
We mostly dialin using Zoom, when we can't do the dial in (1-2x/week) the team uses the /standup bot for hipchat.
https://blog.hipchat.com/2015/08/20/meet-standup-bot/
It's also a team requirement that if for some reason a member cannot make the standup call they record their status in /standup
x0rz · 2017-04-25
Might be related to this? https://blog.hipchat.com/2017/04/24/hipchat-security-notice/
925dk · 2017-04-24
They now confirm https://blog.hipchat.com/2017/04/24/hipchat-security-notice/
JoeAltmaier · 2016-10-07
Here's a (not quite recent) story of somebody abandoning CouchDB when it exceeded one instance:
https://blog.hipchat.com/2013/10/16/how-hipchat-scales-to-1-billion-me…
So maybe my info is out of date if 2.0 fixes this.
marcins · 2015-08-30
Customisable per-room notifications for HipChat have been in Beta for the web client since July: https://blog.hipchat.com/2015/07/13/customizable-room-notifications-no…
uxp · 2015-08-18
Multiple accounts was a huge selling factor for me, though that might not have been included out of the gate. HipChat only _just_ enabled multiple accounts two months ago.
https://blog.hipchat.com/2015/06/08/connecting-multiple-accounts-on-hi…
cjbc · 2015-07-30
HipChat got per room notifications in beta - https://blog.hipchat.com/2015/07/13/customizable-room-notifications-no…
eddieroger · 2014-07-28
This appeal reminded me of HipChat's situation with Messages for Mac, and the similar (but better responded to) action they took [0]. It doesn't look like Bolt did anything to lay claim to the name, and they probably don't want to go up against Facebook's lawyers. Besides, they only support Android at the moment, so to any iOS user, Bolt is completely new (and, likely, same for Android, but at least they had potential to know the product).
0. https://blog.hipchat.com/2012/02/17/they-may-just-be-chat-bubbles-but-…
latchkey · 2014-05-27
smethod · 2014-05-27
I know it sounds ridiculous but for me the one thing HipChat's got over Slack is the ability to have custom emoticons https://blog.hipchat.com/2012/05/21/custom-emoticons-everywhere. Admittedly we use it mainly for banter and fun but its a sticky feature currently keeping me migrating over to Slack...
ashayh · 2014-05-27
What exactly do you mean by 'spy'?
Edit: Looks like OP was referring to this: https://blog.hipchat.com/2014/04/25/hey-were-changing-our-terms-of-ser…
meritt · 2014-03-18
Hipchat desktop clients are native now, actually.
http://blog.hipchat.com/2013/10/24/hipchat-is-all-native/
girasquid · 2012-10-16
http://hipchat.com is pretty quick to set up - it has web, desktop, and mobile clients - they also seem to have experimental support for XMPP/Jabber (http://blog.hipchat.com/2011/04/25/experimental-support-for-xmppjabber… which would let you use Adium to connect.