[suprememoocow]

Sandeep, it's interesting that you view it that way, but it was never our intention to deliberately make privacy hard. When creating a new room, you can choose to make it public, private and optionally allow anyone from your GitHub org to join your private room. See http://imgur.com/jIb8EKA

It's definitely true that the product focus on Gitter has always been more on public rooms. That's because the focus of our company has always been on the network of public communities, rather than enterprise features, which we feel are well represented in the market by other great products like Slack, Mattermost, etc.

(Background: I'm CTO/Cofounder at Gitter)

[sandGorgon]

I completely understand and respect that. It was not a complaint - but cognizance that you had a certain philosophy in mind.

Forget slack - look at hipchat which has far simpler privacy controls. The ability to create an organization (NOT linked to GitHub), per channel permissions is all that's needed. Hipchat makes this dead simple.

Lots of different people will have different requirements - some people will need Active Directory even, but essentially the only two things needed for enterprise messaging is permissions and search.

[suprememoocow]

Additionally, would love to hear your feedback on what you think we could change in Gitter to make privacy easier and less frictionless.