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Chris Rivers

Client Update: Apr. 5, 2011

By Chris Rivers | 10 months ago | 0 Comments |

We just put out a minor update to the desktop client, mostly to fix some user-reported issues. Changes include:

  • Fix an issue where display of room permissions was carried over between managing separate rooms
  • Tabs will highlight in yellow only when your name is @-mentioned instead of whenever it appears anywhere in text
  • Mac: cmd+shift+left/right now correctly selects text instead of switching tabs (cmd+alt+left/right will switch tabs)
  • Clicking on Growl notifications now properly focuses the chat window
  • User request: Notifications will automatically be disabled when setting status as “Do Not Disturb”

As always, let us know your feedback by going to help.hipchat.com or sending us an email at support@hipchat.com.

Chris Rivers

Try at your own risk: Growl support

By Chris Rivers | 10 months ago | 5 Comments |

Growl LogoAs many of our you know, one conspicuously missing feature in the Mac desktop app is the ability to hook into Growl notifications (Growl Notifications has the most “me too” clicks out of any idea on our community help site). Unfortunately, in order to hook into Growl with AIR we’ve been waiting for a Growl release which includes a special protocol called GNTP that lets us send notifications by talking over the network. Sadly, that release isn’t slated until Growl 2.0 which has no specific date yet.

So, we took it upon ourselves to get the client ready for when GNTP Growl is released. The latest version of the client includes early developmental support for displaying Growl notifications on Mac. We’re letting you know about this because there has been such high demand for it.

Disclaimer

Before we provide a link to a build which includes this support, please note: we are in no way providing support for Growl and this build of growl is still in development, which means there may be bugs (including security issues). Use at your own risk.

How to set it up

That said, we know there are some of you out there who are OK with installing developmental software and understand the issues and bugs that potentially come along with it.

  1. Make sure your HipChat client is up to date
  2. Download the build at http://downloads.hipchat.com/growl-gntp.tgz
  3. Unzip the contents of the .tgz file
  4. Double-click on the Growl.prefPane item. It will prompt you to overwrite your existing Growl version.
  5. Once you have it installed, re-launch HipChat and it will automatically begin using Growl to send you notifications.

If you want to revert to the latest official version of Growl, simply go to http://growl.info and download the latest installer. It will prompt you to overwrite the GNTP install.

Chris Rivers

Client Update: Mar. 23, 2011

By Chris Rivers | 10 months ago | 2 Comments |

We just released a minor update to the client which includes the following:

  • Minor fix to include umlauted characters in mentions
  • DND status will now persist when idle
  • Fix mention issue with people having names beginning “all”
  • Fix /quote command to not include leading space
  • List of invited users should now update properly when there are no users in the list
  • Fix for roster displaying all members as offline when signing in
  • Added option to completely disable emoticons
  • The first line of monospaced messages will no longer be trimmed of whitespace

You can be automatically notified of these updates if you choose “Notify me of all HipChat updates” under the settings panel in the desktop app. Otherwise – you can manually check for updates.

Garret Heaton

Special treatment for GitHub URLs

By Garret Heaton | 11 months ago | 1 Comment |

HipChat now detects certain GitHub URLs and shows additional data about them:

Linking to a repo. Users, issues, commits, and Gists are also supported.

We were surprised to learn that github.com is the 3rd most popular domain for shared links on HipChat, just behind youtube.com and twitter.com (which we already support). Combine this fact with their nice API and we knew we had to hook this up.

Happy coding!

Pete Curley

Introducing HipChat for iPhone and iPad

By Pete Curley | 11 months ago | 11 Comments |

Today we’re happy to announce the release of our native iPhone and iPad apps. We want to thank all of our beta testers and customers who have been waiting patiently. We’re passionate about accessibility and this is a big step towards getting HipChat on every operating system and device out there. The apps are free and available in the App Store.


The app has just about everything you’d expect:

  • Group chat and 1-to-1 messaging
  • Inline previews for images, Twitter, and YouTube, etc.
  • Receive push notifications for 1-to-1 chats, room invites, and when you’re mentioned in a room
  • Other users will see you as being on an iPhone

If you have any bugs or feedback please contact us.

One more thing…

We’ve also added a new emoticon: (jobs) . Enjoy!

Chris Rivers

Client Update: Feb. 24, 2011

By Chris Rivers | 11 months ago | 2 Comments |

After working through some particularly tricky bugs reported by some of our users, we have a new client build available for anyone who’s looking to have the latest and greatest. Also included in the update are a couple requests from users: microphone/camera selectors for video chat and text-manipulation shortcuts on Mac and Linux.

How to check for updates.

Release notes below:

  • User request: Added selectors for choosing camera/microphone in video chat window
  • User request: Added ctrl-k/y/f/b shortcuts to Mac/Linux input area
  • Using @all to mention everyone in a room should now correctly trigger notifications
  • Updated notification sound to be clearer and better quality
  • Fixed an issue which occasionally caused text to appear slowly in the input box
  • Fixed an issue where clicking switching to profile in 1-on-1 chats wouldn’t show the profile data
  • Long lines of unbroken text (e.g. json data) should wrap more appropriately now
  • Fixed ctrl-enter to add line breaks correctly in the middle of text
  • Added search functionality to private chat tabs
  • Fix tab index when dragging tabs around
  • Private chats will detect and preview image URLs correctly again (regression)
Garret Heaton

New API feature: Chat history access

By Garret Heaton | 1 year ago | 0 Comments |

You’ve always been able to send messages to HipChat rooms via the API but now you can read them back out as well. Just use the new rooms/history method.

Note that this isn’t a streaming API and that there is a delay of about a minute before sent messages will be available using this method. If you are hoping to build a bot or some other real-time interaction drop us a note and let us know that you’d like to help test our upcoming XMPP support.

Garret Heaton

New chat history retention options

By Garret Heaton | 1 year ago | 0 Comments |

We just added a new option that lets group admins change their group’s chat history retention policy. You can now prevent all chat history from being stored or store only the recent history so people joining rooms have a bit of context.

New retention options.

Both of these new options mean that you can’t search your past chats anymore, but some groups may prefer to go off the record permanently for certain reasons.

Admins will find this option on the group admin page.

Garret Heaton

Basic Campfire API compatibility

By Garret Heaton | 1 year ago | 0 Comments |

Many people switching from 37 Signals’ Campfire to HipChat have asked for an easier way to update the scripts they use to send notification messages to their rooms. Now we have one. It won’t let you configure all the fields we support (like sender name) but should provide a helpful starting point.

View the documentation here.

By the way, we already have integrations with GitHub, Pivotal Tracker, and other services as well as libraries to help you build your own.

Welcome to HipChat!

Chris Rivers

iPhone: Request for beta-testers

By Chris Rivers | 1 year ago | 0 Comments |

UPDATE: We are no longer looking for new beta testers – we’ve had a great response from existing users! Version 1.0 of the app is now available in the App Store. Please feel free to download and rate it. We hope it improves your HipChat mobile experience.

We’re getting near the end of our iPhone app development and are looking for current HipChat users interested in beta testing. If you want to get an early sneak peek at the app and are willing to provide feedback and submit crash reports, drop us a line at support@hipchat.com. All that we need is the device ID from your iPhone (and your name, of course) so we can add you to our list of testers. You can find instructions on how to get that data at Distributing Applications on the Apple developer docs (just search for “sending your device ID”).

Thanks – we’re looking forward to getting the app out ASAP!