Ever wanted to quote part of a message? It's ridiculously easy: select the text and press q. This will add the selected text to your input area, prefixing it with a markdown blockquote > . You can then edit your message further or press enter to send immediately. Happy chatting!…

Github Markdown Cheat Sheet by othree [https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5599/15576500626_97b565087a_k_d.jpg] Ever wanted to copy the markdown source of a message, rather than the text? Just triple-click on a chat message to select the whole message, then copy-and-paste the selected text into the input area using ⌘C/⌘V or Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V. Happy chatting!…

You probably already know that Gitter let's you edit your messages within 10 minutes of sending by pressing ↑ in the input area, or clicking the edit icon on the message. Another, more developer-friendly method also exists. Just type s/string/replacement/ in the input area to replace the first occurrence in your last message, or s/string/replacement/g to replace all occurrences. Happy chatting!…

Last night at 7:15pm UTC Gitter experienced a prolonged degredation of service. During this period the application's response times became incredibly slow and realtime websocket connections to deliver live message updates failed dramatically. Below follows an explanation of what happened and what steps we are taking to prevent this from happening again. Before doing so, I'd like to extend our sincerest apologies to all of our customers who were affected at…

At Gitter, we're trying to build the best communication platform for technical teams and communities on GitHub. In this spirit, as we announced [https://blog.gitter.im/2015/03/25/more-for-free/] last week, today Gitter [https://gitter.im] is now free for teams of up to 25. Our free plan now includes: * Unlimited chat history * Unlimited public rooms * Unlimited private rooms * Unlimited integrations Any organisation or private room owned by an organisation on now…