The 'support' button for trou.pe doesn't work. :(
Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub
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#82Looks pretty neat. I went to signup, but then noticed that they require commit access to my public repos. Why do you need this permission to integrate links to the code and similar features? I don't like giving out commit access unless absolutely necessary.
Re: Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not the parent, but I'm reluctant to give a website access to an account I care about just for a trial. If I know that I want to use your service, sure, but not if I just want to casually evaluate it.
I agree with this, but it's better than the alternative of signing up for a brand new username / password combo! What would you have in mind instead?
(Not parent or parent's parent)
Email and password. It's not really better to be fair
I can give a new service a disposable email address, I don't have a disposable Github/Facebook/Twitter/etc account. Not even a shred of a chance of me testing something if you're requesting anything other than the most basic of read-only permissions too
Re: Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub
#84If you ever want to integrate real-time video chat as well, send us a note at vLine: https://vline.com. We actually have what we call a "GitHub identity provider" (https://vline.com/developer/docs/getting_started) that should make it really easy.
We used that to build GitTogether (https://gittogether.com), which is a similar concept to this: text chat and video chat with people you follow plus members of your teams and organizations.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I concur, doesn't feel right. I think at the very least, have a message saying "This information was shared when you did X" so it's at least explicit. Possibly just not at all; methinks the github crowd, unlike the facebook crowd, are sufficiently privacy sentient.
That wasn't the intention at all, it was more to save you having to type those details in again. Sorry if you felt wronged by it. We're developers ourselves and value our privacy too/
killswitch, what's your username, i'll sort this out for you
Re: Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub
#86The 'support' button for trou.pe doesn't work. :(
How odd, thanks for reporting, will look into it right now. Was working just fine earlier today.
You can also visit https://troupe.uservoice.com/
Re: Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub
#87I love the source code at the beginning of this page.
Re: Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub
#88Chat apps come and go... and there I am on IRC. I hang out with lots of people on github there.
Why would I use this over IRC with the client of my choice? Build an IRC client that integrates with GitHub, or extensions for Adium to handle github URL's. Or maybe GitHub could offer authorization through XMPP.
Why should I have to use a separate client when I already have Facebook, IRC, XMPP, etc. all managed from the same place?
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#89Re: Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub
#90I want to pay money for this. A chat service with built-in GitHub integration including issue and file referencing sounds like a fantastic tool for teams building using GitHub. Any chance you can use an actual Kickstarter instead so I can throw money at you? :)
As long as it's not Pound coins. Those things are heavy! Thanks for the feedback. Our Clickstarter (tm?) is doing quite nicely. I don't think we'll need to Kickstarter it, we've actually built a lot of the tech anyway and could put this together pretty quickly and start charging too.
Any chance that Gitter will be on github so we can help out with it?