Today, you will have noticed that Gitter looks a little different. In fact, you may recognize it as Element, the flagship Matrix client you might already be familiar with. This brings together all the benefits we mentioned in our pre-announcement blog post and wrapping up the long-term plan from back when Gitter joined Matrix. If you’re looking for your existing rooms and chat message history, that’s all still there. Just sign in to app.…
Gitter is going fully native Matrix in Feb. 2023
Gitter is going fully native Matrix in Feb 2023. You can read more about the migration process and details in the pre-announcement blog post. No action is necessary and all of your rooms and content is safe and will be available in the new world.…
Gitter is moving to Element!
Yes! Another big move for Gitter! Gitter is being acquired by Element [https://element.io/] and will become part of the bigger Matrix ecosystem [https://matrix.org/]. Don’t worry, all of the Gitter things are staying around and we will continue to support your communities better than ever. If you’re curious about what Element and Matrix is and the future of Gitter, the blog post over on Matrix.org [https://matrix.org/blog/2020/…
Threaded conversations and GitLab based communities and rooms
After months of development we are proud to introduce two new major features: Threaded conversations and GitLab based communities and rooms. Threaded conversations Multiple conversations in a busy Gitter room can become hard to follow. Up until now the main way of keeping message context has been using Permalinks [https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/-/blob/develop/docs/messages.md#permalinks] and quoting in Markdown syntax [https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#blockquote…
Gitter Topics Deprecation Notice
We introduced Gitter Topics [https://blog.gitter.im/2016/09/30/introducing-gitter-topics/] in September 2016 as an experiment. Unfortunately, it never gained traction and remained in beta through its life-span. After some consideration, we've decided to deprecate and remove this underused feature, allowing us to focus on the chat application. Topics will be completely removed from the Gitter UI on September 1st, 2018 (2018-09-01). We will disable the ability to create new topics/replies…