Ok, I'll say it: Gitter is a terrible, *terrible* chat client. It's winning because it's integrated into GitHub and it's marginally > IRC.
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Replying to @djspiewak
@djspiewak agree. I think IRC remains the one to beat. It's the land-line phone of chat systems.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @djspiewak
@djspiewak@tpolecat compared to hipchat, it's quite good :)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @mandubian
@mandubian@tpolecat I like the *look* of Gitter a bit more, and the Markdown support is outstanding, but everything else sucks.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @djspiewak
@djspiewak yes... Slack should have taken this market earlier ;)@tpolecat1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @mandubian
@mandubian@djspiewak@tpolecat Does anyone else find Gitter can send Firefox (other browsers?) into a background frenzy of CPU wastage?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @propensive
@propensive on Linux, it seems reasonably stable in Firefox but...@djspiewak@tpolecat2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@mandubian @djspiewak @tpolecat I certainly don't rule out the issue being Firefox's fault, or some quirk of my setup...
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