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GitLab is a great service, not perfect but a good alternative to GitHub. I actually use Gitter far more than GitLab these days, GitLab acquired them a while bac

by dom96 8y ago

GitLab is a great service, not perfect but a good alternative to GitHub. I actually use Gitter far more than GitLab these days, GitLab acquired them a while back and I'm really disappointed to see it reduced to stagnation. The product hasn't improved at all since the acquisition, you can argue that it's "finished" and it is 90% there. There are rough edges that make it more annoying to use than Telegram, Slack, etc. The primary one being how they handle notifications on their Android app. It's annoying me every day that this has been effectively broken for years now. Maybe some of the GitLab guys that hang around here can answer my concerns. Why are you guys neglecting Gitter?

MadLittleMods 8y ago
Heya, I'm the current Gitter developer and was working on Gitter before the acquisition. After the acquisition, Gitter did stagnate with no movement as we settled into our new GitLab roles and responsibilities but since May, we have been actively shipping things again. Changelog: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/blob/develop/CHA.... Catching up from the break in development, a lot of work so far has been technical debt. We do have more user-facing changes in mind like removing the disruptive large embeds (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/714#note_88039992 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/714#note_...), improving search (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1925 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1925), and decoupling unreads from emails (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1205 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1205). One of the goals this quarter is to open source the Android/iOS apps, https://about.gitlab.com/okrs/2018-q3/ https://about.gitlab.com/okrs/2018-q3/ but there isn't a plan to keep improving them with new features. We are focusing on fixing the rough edges of the webapp and are happy to review your Merge Requests for any project. By Android notifications being broken, I assume you probably mean our double-buzz avoidance, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1846 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1846, but please make sure your particular issue is tracked, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=android&label_name[]=notifications https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues?scope=all...
- dom96 8y ago
  Hey, thanks for responding. > By Android notifications being broken, I assume you probably mean our double-buzz avoidance, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1846 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1846 That does indeed look like the issue I am experiencing. We've got a setup where our IRC channel is relayed to/from Gitter so I am usually on IRC instead of Gitter web. But this means that I need to manually discard mentions on Gitter web, otherwise I get a notification that is super long containing all my mentions. This means I cannot easily see what was said to me at the time of the notification.

by dom96 8y ago

MadLittleMods 8y ago

Heya, I'm the current Gitter developer and was working on Gitter before the acquisition. After the acquisition, Gitter did stagnate with no movement as we settled into our new GitLab roles and responsibilities but since May, we have been actively shipping things again. Changelog: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/blob/develop/CHA.... Catching up from the break in development, a lot of work so far has been technical debt. We do have more user-facing changes in mind like removing the disruptive large embeds (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/714#note_88039992 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/714#note_...), improving search (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1925 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1925), and decoupling unreads from emails (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1205 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1205). One of the goals this quarter is to open source the Android/iOS apps, https://about.gitlab.com/okrs/2018-q3/ https://about.gitlab.com/okrs/2018-q3/ but there isn't a plan to keep improving them with new features. We are focusing on fixing the rough edges of the webapp and are happy to review your Merge Requests for any project. By Android notifications being broken, I assume you probably mean our double-buzz avoidance, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1846 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1846, but please make sure your particular issue is tracked, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=android&label_name[]=notifications https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues?scope=all...

dom96 8y ago
Hey, thanks for responding. > By Android notifications being broken, I assume you probably mean our double-buzz avoidance, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1846 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1846 That does indeed look like the issue I am experiencing. We've got a setup where our IRC channel is relayed to/from Gitter so I am usually on IRC instead of Gitter web. But this means that I need to manually discard mentions on Gitter web, otherwise I get a notification that is super long containing all my mentions. This means I cannot easily see what was said to me at the time of the notification.