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Dev tools · June 16, 2014

Gitter

free public chat rooms for open source projects on GitHub

Gitter launched on June 16, 2014 with 131 votes, #108 of 1,531 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

Visit gitter.im ↗Gitter alternativestop 7% of June 2014

What it does

Gitter is a chat and networking platform that helps to manage, grow and connect communities through messaging, content and discovery. Matrix.org is an open network for secure, decentralized communication. There is a variety of clients are available. Learn more Sign-in with GitHub/GitLab/Twitter and start chatting, with End-to-End Encrypted messaging. Format your messages just like with your other favorite developer tools. Available however you want to access Gitter. Just connect your favorite Matrix client to the gitter.im homeserver. Internals you'll want to see, it's just JSON, make it yours. The Gitter webapp is available in all modern browsers, and there are a variety of Matrix clients…from gitter.im

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