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It's sad that Gitter didn't gain the traction in tech communities that it should have. It's already searchable (and you land on the conversation directly, not
by politelemon 4y ago
It's sad that Gitter didn't gain the traction in tech communities that it should have. It's already searchable (and you land on the conversation directly, not a cloned website), clutter-free and supported markdown before the others. But many communities simply chose to walk into closed spaces, now these workarounds are being built.
- nightpool 4y agoI used Gitter for a small open-source community for several years, but we moved to Discord just because it substantially reduced friction for non-technical user support. Not necessarily the biggest issue for many software projects, but for user-facing projects it was impossible to get people to sign up for Github accounts and connect to Gitter just to ask us a question. Discord has super-low-friction onboarding that really makes it easier for people to give feedback and troubleshoot issues.
- heretogetout 4y agoIs it possible to search Gitter archives? It's real easy in Discord but I don't see a way to do it in Gitter, at least not without third party interfaces (I haven't tested if they work).
- jakecopp 4y agoIf they start supporting Matrix this should be possible! It would be awesome if they supported Matrix - you could then archive many things via a bridge (https://matrix.org/bridges/ https://matrix.org/bridges/).