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Re:The Startup Zeitgeist by afarrell on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:18PM (#11633806)
> although IRC is still common

I am sad to see an open-source tech get replaced with a closed source one, but I am glad that the default IM system for talking about code is no longer one that prohibits multi-line comments.

Considering the amount of skilled time and effort that good UX takes, I suppose closed-source was the most likely thing to happen.

Re:The Startup Zeitgeist by anderspitman on Thursday May 05, 2016 @03:44AM (#11634545)
Being able to use inline LaTeX and Markdown is the killer feature of Gitter for me.