If you talked with us at SXSW you might have heard some promises of a web version of HipChat being ‘in the works’.  Well, after a week of recovery, we’re eager to let our users try it out and give some feedback.  Starting today, anyone can access HipChat web chat beta from their browser by going to http://www.hipchat.com/chat (you just need to log in first). We’ve tried to keep the UI pretty familiar for those of you that run the client.  Also, as much as we wish we could conjure feature parity out of thin air, the web version is still a work-in-progress.  You won’t have access to all the features you find in the client, but we’ve tried to include the most important ones:

Web version

So, if you find yourself without your trusty HipChat client or you just want to check out a browser-based version, we encourage you try give it a spin and send us some feedback.  As always, you can reach us by going to http://help.hipchat.com/ or by sending an email to support@hipchat.com