# Gitter chat/channel for Ansible? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [August 11, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gitter-chat-channel-for-ansible/18988 "2015-08-11T02:51:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hristo\_Stoyanov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Hristo\_Stoyanov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Hristo_Stoyanov)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gitter-chat-channel-for-ansible/18988/1 "2015-08-11T02:51:47Z")
Hi, I tried the IRC chat for Ansible and it is painful (especially from mobile device). Since Ansible is hosted on Github anyway, wouldn’t it be better to leverage the free and integrated Gitter chat? I have seen other projects on Github using it with great success … Thanks for the great tool, btw! ---
**Author:** ![cohen.ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@cohen.ben](https://forum.ansible.com/u/cohen.ben)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gitter-chat-channel-for-ansible/18988/2 "2015-08-12T05:19:28Z")
As a lurker whose email clients have mailed mailing lists unbearable – id love to see this! ---
**Author:** ![Alejandro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Alejandro](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Alejandro)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gitter-chat-channel-for-ansible/18988/3 "2015-08-13T00:42:56Z")
We can use SLACK ([http://slack.com](http://slack.com)) Here some comments about others experiences using SLACK as replace of IRC [http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/03/24/slack-is-quietly-unintentionally-killing-irc/](http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/03/24/slack-is-quietly-unintentionally-killing-irc/) Hope this help Alejandro ---
**Author:** ![Martin2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Martin2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Martin2)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gitter-chat-channel-for-ansible/18988/4 "2015-08-13T10:31:46Z")
Well you at ansible seem to use slack but where do there mere mortal go? [https://ansible.slack.com/](https://ansible.slack.com/): If you have an **@[ansible.com](http://ansible.com)** email address, you can [create an account](https://ansible.slack.com/signup/). ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_DeKoenigsberg1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@Greg\_DeKoenigsberg1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Greg_DeKoenigsberg1)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gitter-chat-channel-for-ansible/18988/5 "2015-08-13T15:10:30Z")
Starting to hear a lot of interest in more than just irc. I think adding some public Slack channels might be worthwhile, since we also use it for internal communications and we like it. I will look into it and report back. ---
**Author:** ![Dani\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dani\_C](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dani_C)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gitter-chat-channel-for-ansible/18988/6 "2015-08-14T10:09:24Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![Brandon\_Jozsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Brandon\_Jozsa](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brandon_Jozsa)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gitter-chat-channel-for-ansible/18988/7 "2016-01-09T21:52:33Z")
Greg, Did you ever find anything out about this? I was asking folks in the IRC channel about this today. I’ve been using the Kubernetes and CoreOS slack groups a lot over the past 6 months, and I’ve started to really like it. It would be nice to have a Ansible slack group. Brandon ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_DeKoenigsberg1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@Greg\_DeKoenigsberg1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Greg_DeKoenigsberg1)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gitter-chat-channel-for-ansible/18988/8 "2016-01-12T21:51:09Z")
> Greg, > > Did you ever find anything out about this? I was asking folks in the IRC > channel about this today. I've been using the Kubernetes and CoreOS slack > groups a lot over the past 6 months, and I've started to really like it. It > would be nice to have a Ansible slack group. So here's the thing: we can't afford to be everywhere all at once. We could definitely consider having public channels for Slack/Gitter/etc., but they would be unofficial, and we'd have to make it clear that they were entirely community supported, and that Ansible folks are paying attention somewhere else (i.e. IRC, where we have over 1000 people paying attention.) I could imagine that Slack and Gitter would be popular regardless, but we'd have to be very clear with these caveats. --g ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Cauldwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@Darryl\_Cauldwell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Darryl_Cauldwell)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gitter-chat-channel-for-ansible/18988/9 "2016-11-28T16:26:48Z")
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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Cauldwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@Darryl\_Cauldwell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Darryl_Cauldwell)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gitter-chat-channel-for-ansible/18988/10 "2016-11-28T16:27:28Z")
Greg, Might something like this [https://github.com/ekmartin/slack-irc](https://github.com/ekmartin/slack-irc) be good interim, so people can use either IRC or Slack and the messages sync between ? Cheers ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Totterman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Paul\_Totterman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul_Totterman)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gitter-chat-channel-for-ansible/18988/11 "2016-11-29T13:26:36Z")
Hi, There is also Matrix ([matrix.org](http://matrix.org)), with clients such as Riot (riot.im, web, android, ios) and a bridge to freenode IRC. Basically, if you only care about IRC@freenode, it works as well as [irccloud.com](http://irccloud.com), but for free. Cheers, Paul