Gitter is one of the most popular chat room services that was based on github repositories and authentication, but was bought by their competitor - gitlab.

I read the entire readme and had no idea that's what it was.

Great point. We "soft launched" this yesterday so are still working on the documentation and hadn't made any official announcement yet until we've ironed out in any kinks.

Looks like HN announced it for us...

Blame reddit rather, that's where I saw it and only then posted here. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6l2jjj/gitter_...

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...and please turn off that heads on world animation thing. It's annoying and distracting.

Just leave them on. We get the message.

Yes they should have at least added the website url which is btw. http://gitter.im

Thanks for pointing this out.

I opened an issue about having a description of the project in the landing page: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1746

There's also https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32794 which always shows you where you are (within GitLab), which is tangentially related

Gitter[1] is a chat service integrated with Github. They was acquired by Gitlab a few months ago

  [1] http://gitter.im/

We've edited the description of the project now that has a simple explanation and a link to Gitter. Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming!

I was slightly annoyed by this too (that it lacks this simple info)

File a bug?

Send a Merge Request ;)