HipChat Review
Updated November 01, 2016
HipChat Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with HipChat
My team is composed of members who live in different states. We use hipchat to communicate amongst our team. It makes it easy to keep questions to multiple individuals amongst the team. It is linked to our Jira and Stash and lets us keep track of pull requests and how various tasks are progressing. This way, it makes it easy to discuss any proposed changes to our code base etc.
- HipChat is very stable and reliable. I have never had issues with not being able to connect or being able to communicate with others on HipChat.
- HipChat integrates quite well with other applications, such as Jira and Stash. This is a main selling point for my team. It provides a convenient feed of actions on a JIRA story or Stash pull request.
- HipCat does a good job of allowing 1-1 and group chats. It is simple to start a new conversation and it is easy to hold a group conversation and keep track of who is in the room.
- I like how HipChat has away/here/on mobile statuses. This makes it easy to see if a person is available to be contacted.
- It would be nice to have a record of shared images or documents, perhaps an option to see all shared items for the past X days.
- It would be nice to have a few more color/style themes (perhaps one similar to Sublime tests slushi theme!?).
- An option to "save" received messages for future reference.