It's definitely getting busy here on Gitter [https://gitter.im/home] lately - with over 30,000 open developer communities, and hundreds of new channels created every day! We would like to make it easier for you to discover new and useful communities for yourself - no matter if you are an expert or just starting your adventure with code. Today, we have a curated list of our most active and interesting front-end communities.…
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Why A369D5 means "purple"
This post has been adapted from a talk I originally gave at codebar [http://codebar.io], which is a non-profit initiative that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running regular programming workshops. It is targeted to those who are learning to code. If we wanted all our links to be "codebar purple", we would write a css rule like this: a { color: #a36965 } But this seems like a weird way to…
Introducing our new Community Pages
When we first started Gitter [https://gitter.im], we created a simple way for people to create and join chat rooms for repositories on GitHub. Over the year and half since our launch we've seen thousands of wonderful and creative ways people are using Gitter to create communities. During this time, communities have evolved from single channels into multiple rooms. To help foster this evolution, today, we are launching our new Community Pages. Sorry,…
Scheduled maintenance 19 July
Owing to some of the recent issues [https://blog.gitter.im/2015/07/16/growing-pains/] we've experienced, we will be doing scheduled maintenance on our server infrastructure over the weekend. During this time, all services will be unavailable whilst we implement a major update to our data and application infrastructure. We anticipate the down time to be around 1 hour and will take place at 8:00AM BST on Sunday. For your convenience, some…
Growing pains
First off, let me apologise to all who have been affected by the two service availability issues we've encountered in the last week. We absolutely love providing our service to everyone and are devastated that we let you down. On Thursday 9th June at 7:30pm BST we experienced a massive degradation of service caused by our database server locking requests. The underlying problem was the RAID array unable to keep up with expanded…