[mikerichards]

Until recently, Gitter had some weird bug where it the process would be in the background after you closed it, and you thinking that it was gone, would try to fire up another one it would just go to a background process or something.

But Gitter has other issues - mostly of the UX kind. One of them is that you can search for other rooms, but you can't really save that search. You have to start over everytime. Also, the default of sending you an email for every freaking message when you star a room is absolutely atrocious.