Minnit Chat — Blog

Hello. Today, we are announcing a new feature that is in the early stages of development: A Headless Chat Client. This will allow you to build your own frontend client, and have it silently connect in the background to Minnit’s servers. You can use this to build against our product, taking advantage of our features,… Continue reading Coming Soon: Headless Chat Client

Hello everyone! Today we are pleased to announce a major update to our product has gone out for Spring 2024. Here are some of the changes: That’s all for today! Thank you to all chatroom owners for your continued support and feedback on our service. We’re hard at work on new features for later this… Continue reading Minnit Chat — Spring 2024 Update

Hello everyone. For years now, our Bot has offered the ability to blacklist certain words and phrases, to allow you to have a simple auto-moderation experience. Today, we’re taking this auto-moderation to the next level, using AI. The new AI Moderation settings are now rolled out to all chatrooms & organizations. Everybody on the Business… Continue reading Moderate your chatroom with AI

Statuses (Available, Away, Busy) have been available for over a week now, serving as a convenient way to convey your status to your users or fellow chatters. Today, we’re improving them by adding our first automatic status: Listening. Listening will automatically apply when users are tuned in to the chatroom radio , assuming your chatroom is… Continue reading Listen Up!  New “Listening” automatic status

Hello everyone! We hope you’ve had a good start to 2024 so far. We’re happy to announce that our first major update to Minnit Chat is now available, full of new features and improvements. Let’s dig in. Statuses You can now set a status in the chat. Simply click your name, and click Change Status… Continue reading Minnit Chat — January 2024 Update

Hello everyone! As 2023 draws to a close, we wanted to take a moment to go over some of the changes and improvements to our platform over the last 12 months. Over the year, across all organizations, Minnit has processed, on average, over one hundred messages per second, totaling tens of millions sent over the… Continue reading Happy New Year from Minnit!

Hello everyone — if you’re in the US like myself, I hope you’ve had a happy Thanksgiving! Today I am pleased to announce version 4.0 of our WordPress plugin is now released. This features major improvements both to the functionality and design of the plugin. Chat icon changed First and foremost, the chat icon has… Continue reading Version 4.0 of our WordPress Plugin has arrived!

Hello everyone! Today, we’re pleased to announce that Email Notifications are now available. Just like Push Notifications released earlier this year, Email Notifications will ensure you never miss a message. You can set up the following notification types: Notifications are easy to setup. Click the Gear icon in the chat, then click Notifications. You can… Continue reading You’ve got mail! Email Notifications are here 📫

Hello everyone. Today we’re offering another much-requested feature: Webhooks. Webhooks will allow Minnit to send a request to a URL on your website when an action is performed in your chatroom. Currently, these actions are sending a message, user joining, and user leaving. You can use this to generate real-time statistics, perform an action on… Continue reading Hooked on Webhooks

Hello everyone. Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of a much-requested feature: The ability to create an allowlist, or a blocklist, of who is allowed to start a conversation from within your Organization. On the chat level, you have long been able to restrict certain chatrooms so that Direct Messages are disabled altogether, and… Continue reading Control who can start conversations in your Organization