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…

Vuvuzela and some of its many meanings [https://www.flickr.com/photos/jikatu/4741686942] by Jimmy Baikovicius [https://www.flickr.com/photos/jikatu/] You've always been able to individually @mention your teammates in Gitter chat rooms, but today we're rolling out a new feature where you'll be able to @mention everyone in the room using @/all. In order to keep the noise down, in repo rooms we're only…

The amazing thing about our journey building Gitter is just how global our communities are. We're a fairly international team ourselves, comprised of two South Africans, an Englishman, a Brazilian and an Argentinian. You should hear the jokes when we walk into a bar... Japanese language rooms form our second largest non-English communities and we have started embarking on translating our app into Japanese. We've started on the front page and will…

Russian language rooms form our largest non-English communities and we have started embarking on translating our app into Russian. We've started on the front page and will gradually start moving all of the strings in the application over to externalised templates. It is very possible that some of the translations are a bit wrong. We used an agency to help us with this and it's possible they didn't quite understand…

When most people see this cat, they think awwww cute. But some people think this: Imagine how frustrated they must be not being able to easily express themselves in chat rooms around the world. Well... now you can use LaTeX on Gitter [https://gitter.im] by using the brilliant KaTeX library [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320439] from the Khan Acadamy. The above expression would be represented as follows: $$\left(\int{-\infty}^\infty x^…