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What absolutely killed HipChat for our team was the fact that its not possible to use HipChat for multiple teams. Need to be logged into multiple accounts at th
by JonoBB 12y ago
What absolutely killed HipChat for our team was the fact that its not possible to use HipChat for multiple teams. Need to be logged into multiple accounts at the same time (i.e your own team and your client's team)? Not possible.
Their suggested solution is to use multiple different clients (i.e. one native, one browser) at the same time, which is beyond ridiculous.
I dont think that I have seen any uservoice votes above 6000 for any other product request before (see http://help.hipchat.com/forums/138883-suggestions-ideas/suggestions/2716912-let-me-be-a-member-of-and-sign-in-to-multiple-acco http://help.hipchat.com/forums/138883-suggestions-ideas/sugg...).
With no solution in sight, moving to slack or flowdock was a no brainer.
- jacktoole1 12y agoFor anyone else running into the same problem, I just copied my HipChat.app in /Applications, and ran the second hipchat next to the first hipchat (you can also change the second hipchat's icon for easy distinguishment). It's not perfect (upon logout/restart it still remembers the preferences for the other instance), but it solved 90% of my hassle.
- JesseObrien 12y agoYou can also do in the terminal: hipchat --detach &
- cooper12 12y agoOr for even any app: open -n /path/to/application.app From the open man page: -n Open a new instance of the application(s) even if one is already running.
- talkingquickly 12y agoThis has been driving me crazy for months, I had one version of the old buggy Adobe Air app running and one of the new Native app. Somehow just creating a copy of the new native app just never occurred to me. You just made my day substantially better.
- chermanowicz 12y agoThat's smart. But still, it's crazy that something like multiple organizations would require you to do this on your end. There are better options out there :)