What is Gitter?
Who uses Gitter?
Gitter Integrations
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Gitter in their tech stack.
From a StackShare Community member: “We’re about to start a chat group for our open source project (over 5K stars on GitHub) so we can let our community collaborate more closely. The obvious choice would be Slack (k8s and a ton of major projects use it), but we’ve seen Gitter (webpack uses it) for a lot of open source projects, Discord (Vue.js moved to them), and as of late I’m seeing Spectrum more and more often. Does anyone have experience with these or other alternatives? Is it even worth assessing all these options, or should we just go with Slack? Some things that are important to us: free, all the regular integrations (GitHub, Heroku, etc), mobile & desktop apps, and open source is of course a plus."
Gitter's Features
- Know who's seen any message
- Edit messages after you've sent them
- Full emoji support
- Special Lurk Mode
- IRC bridge.
- Automatically embeds content like Gists, YouTube, pictures of cats and other stuff
- Desktop notifications and @mentions.
- Infinite chat history stored in the cloud
- Will soon be searchable too
- Phew, that's a lot and we're building more constantly.
- Desktop app for Mac. Windows, iPhone and Android coming soon. Works perfectly in mobile web browsers.
