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Gitter – Chat, for GitHub

71 points| ejdyksen | 12 years ago |gitter.im

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[+] rileytg|12 years ago|reply
Looks really nice but you guys ask for too many permissions! SSH keys?? http://cl.ly/U1pP
[+] mydigitalself|12 years ago|reply
Hey,

I've answered this numerous times in this thread, but I'll say it again, very loudly and very definitively: WE DO NOT WRITE TO YOUR SSH KEYS, EVER. EVER. EVER. We don't even read them.

Unfortunately, as beautiful as GitHub's API is, they've got their scopes for permissions completely wrong and we know they are working to fix this.

Short answer: https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200178961-Why-d...

Long answer: https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-Authe...

Mike

[+] mydigitalself|12 years ago|reply
Hey, thanks for posting. Mike here from Gitter.

I know a lot of this audience are pretty bullish on IRC and so we're also busy testing an IRC bridge for Gitter. Once you've signed up, feel free to go to https://irc.gitter.im and give it a whirl.

Feel free to leave any feedback on Gitter here or get in touch with us via our chat room: https://gitter.im/gitterHQ/gitter or http://support.gitter.im

[+] coherentpony|12 years ago|reply
Mike? Why did you have to change you name? He's the one who sucks!
[+] mikexstudios|12 years ago|reply
This is really cool, but is there a reason why the authorization permissions requires r/w access to: Private email addresses, and SSH keys?
[+] imjared|12 years ago|reply
Pretty cool but I can't see having another chat client on top of Hipchat. Wish there was some way to bake this into Hipchat since the features look awesome. Great work!
[+] mydigitalself|12 years ago|reply
Thanks! We've got a few people migrating from Campfire and Hipchat to us... :)
[+] dangoor|12 years ago|reply
We've been testing it for Brackets:

https://gitter.im/adobe/brackets

It's a really cool service and I think one of the big considerations for us right now is that our freenode channel (#brackets) has 86 people in it as I type this. We've potentially got some inertia to overcome.

[+] mariocesar|12 years ago|reply
Awesome :)

I just integrated with sorl-thumbnail, I don't know if it will be a fully replacement for our IRC channel, however I'm sure most of the devs will give it a try.

Gitter Room: https://gitter.im/mariocesar/sorl-thumbnail

[+] namuol|12 years ago|reply
Reminds me a lot of Slack[1], but the gh-flavored-markdown and tighter issue and CI integration make Gitter stand out.

Any chance of BitBucket integration?

[1] (http://slack.com/)

[+] mydigitalself|12 years ago|reply
BitBucket is coming soon! Follow us on twitter for updates (@gitchat)
[+] yssrn|12 years ago|reply
Is there a privacy policy or ToS? I don't see one on the site.
[+] jbranchaud|12 years ago|reply
It looks great, I'd love to try it, but I am not comfortable with how many permissions it requires on my Github account.
[+] suprememoocow|12 years ago|reply
Hi, this is Andrew from Gitter.

If you're not comfortable with the OAuth permissions Gitter requires, you're welcome to try it's sister product, Troupe https://trou.pe. It's got most of the same features, but with less Github integration.

[+] hartator|12 years ago|reply
How do this compare to HipChat? Seems interesting.
[+] twir|12 years ago|reply
Where's the privacy policy?