Yeah I’m not really sure I don’t know many Gitter users. It could go badly but the team at Element are pretty good at making chat applications, they have kept on the guy who was previously doing most of the work, and there is the potential for Gitter accounts being very useful for contacting many more people/engaging with many more open source projects.

Its a tech chat kind of like slack, but was more for open source communities. Matrix surpassed it a long time ago.