Comment by JonoBB | Hacker News Reader

Comment by JonoBB | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

What absolutely killed HipChat for our team was the fact that its not possible to use HipChat for multiple teams. Need to be logged into multiple accounts at the same time (i.e your own team and your client's team)? Not possible.

Their suggested solution is to use multiple different clients (i.e. one native, one browser) at the same time, which is beyond ridiculous.

I dont think that I have seen any uservoice votes above 6000 for any other product request before (see http://help.hipchat.com/forums/138883-suggestions-ideas/sugg...).

With no solution in sight, moving to slack or flowdock was a no brainer.

For anyone else running into the same problem, I just copied my HipChat.app in /Applications, and ran the second hipchat next to the first hipchat (you can also change the second hipchat's icon for easy distinguishment). It's not perfect (upon logout/restart it still remembers the preferences for the other instance), but it solved 90% of my hassle.

You can also do in the terminal:

  hipchat --detach &

Or for even any app:

    open -n /path/to/application.app

From the open man page:

    -n  Open a new instance of the application(s) even if one is already running.

This has been driving me crazy for months, I had one version of the old buggy Adobe Air app running and one of the new Native app. Somehow just creating a copy of the new native app just never occurred to me. You just made my day substantially better.

That's smart. But still, it's crazy that something like multiple organizations would require you to do this on your end. There are better options out there :)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com