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HipChat acquired by Atlassian
- OoTheNigerian 15y agoIt seems the same person writes all these "we have been acquired" posts.
- suhail 15y agoCongrats guys!
- eberfreitas 15y agoCongrats guys! Atlassian really seems like a good place for you :)
- unicron 15y agoAnother product about to be ruined... (I'm not an Atlassian fan)
- JshWright 15y ago> (I'm not an Atlassian fan) Clearly... Care to provide any more detail? A well reasoned post might have spared you some downvotes.
- unicron 15y agoCrucible/fisheye - slow. I mean really slow. Unusably slow both with respect to the UI and back end. Half our team use IE which it just doesn't work in at all. Chrome is the only thing it just about crawls along in. Incredibly difficult keeping it alive with 50 users. Crashes once a week entirely and sometimes refuses to start with no error messages at all. JIRA - workflow crash took our team of 30 devs at the time out entirely for 2 days. Overcomplicated administrative mess especially with respect to plugins. Reindexing takes out the entire JIRA instance until complete. Permission schemes and workflow is an epic mess of cludges. Both products: Null pointer exceptions galore, scary memory ceiling. Integration sucks - all the horrible mappings to maintain. They feel like bloated, slow and badly designed products which is worrying considering the cost. TBH their support are good but I shouldn't have to use it on a product suite that costs that much.
- ksec 15y agoHalf of your dev team uses IE o.O ??
- shuzchen 15y agoHow are any of these reasons that HipChat is "about to be ruined"? Both of those are huge products, and afaict were developed by Atlassian - not acquired. Atlassian has made two big acquisitions that I know of (Bitbucket, SourceTree), and in both cases the product was better off after the acquisition. From what I see, Atlassian goes in and provides cash and infrastructure, leaving the teams that were responsible for the product's success to continue making great things. I don't see any indication that things will be different for HipChat.
- matwood 15y agoWe use a few Atlassian products and don't have any complaints. I'd be interested to hear more of your reasoning.
- ak217 15y agoMy personal experience is that JIRA is an unmitigated UX design trainwreck. Most of the UI pages and workflows that I've seen are nightmarishly kludgey. It makes Bugzilla's UI seem decent by comparison. I haven't used their other products (other than BitBucket, which is fine, but hasn't kept up with Github), but JIRA desperately needs a UX design vision.
- i386 15y agoWe are working on re-working the JIRA UX right now and we would love your feedback. Shoot me an email at james@atlassian.com and I'll pass it along :-)
- MartinMond 15y agoInteresting strategy by Atlassian. First they bought bitbucket, then SourceTree, now HipChat. Also I hope HipChat will now finally get that native OS X client they've been promising for ages.
- JshWright 15y agoAt least you can still get AIR for OSX. Trying running the HipChat client on Linux... it's pretty painful, and getting more painful as time goes on (and we get further and further from Adobe's last release of AIR for Linux). It's even more painful to get it running on a 64 bit Linux distribution...
- adatta02 15y ago^ this - I've just given up trying to get TweetDeck running on 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10
- Legion 15y agoAs we speak, I'm running a Windows virtual machine in fullscreen on my left monitor. The VM's sole job is running Adobe AIR for the HipChat client.
- samstave 15y agoSounds efficient :)
- Legion 15y agoHey, what else are you going to use a 6-core CPU and 16GB of RAM for if not to throw VMs around willy-nilly?
- matthewcford 15y agoWhy haven't I thought of that?!
- rottencupcakes 15y ago
- alpb 15y agoI really would like to say my congratulations to them. They are a pretty decent project management tool, we use them at ollaa and recently I have written a blog post about HipChat. http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/why-we-love-and-hate-hipchat/ http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/why-we-love-and-hate-hipchat/ Atlassian is making really smart decisions.
- Judson 15y agoIn your blog post: Push notifications. They’re confusing. All the in-person communication is pushed, however room conversation is not unless you are @mentioned. If you would like to make an announcement to 10 people, you have to mention them one by one manually. You can use "@all" to mention everyone.
- doh 15y agoI think HipChat is the best group communication tool http://www.quora.com/Should-my-team-use-Hipchat-or-Campfire-or-Yammer http://www.quora.com/Should-my-team-use-Hipchat-or-Campfire-... I wish them luck
- brown9-2 15y agoSweet, this means my Atlassian-loving company might finally start using a web-based chat room system. For some reason our teams love email, wiki, IMs, but won't even countenance the benefit of realtime chat.
- parfe 15y agoWe have a permanent jabber room on our server that all but one dev uses. No one was ever told they needed to be there. Just start using a chatroom and invite people in. Remind a few to add it to the auto-join list. If your coworkers find a benefit in it, there doesn't need to be an official policy; the usage will just grow organically. If they don't see a benefit, why force it on them?
- samstave 15y agoWe used to do this in '99 with an IRC server with all the IT folks on it. We would train the bots with info about systems. You could type an IP - and the bot would reply with the system details, etc.
- xbryanx 15y agoI bet they change the logo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3603937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3603937
- dustingetz 15y agowhy is atlassian acquiring commodity tech? I don't understand their strategy. edit: as opposed to just building it themselves, what's so hard about a chat app? maybe i underestimate the amount of iteration in the hipchat product and they're buying that product knowledge, not the tech.
- leftnode 15y agoTo be the be-all, end-all company that builds products for other software businesses.
- vineet 15y agoBuying the tech helps them get there faster. Also they don't just buy another product, HipChat has a very fanatical user base. It will likely be easy for Atlassian to get it adopted by the rest of their user base.
- ksec 15y agoIt will still take time to build Bring in new customers who are using Hipchat Bring in new talent.
- RudySF 15y agoCongrats to Garret and his team!
- ksec 15y agoI wonder if Github will offer anything similar? Or will 37signal and GitHub merge one day?
- vinothgopi 15y agoNow you have a good excuse to rebrand (and/or change that icon?)