On Saturday, March 1, 2014 12:35:56 PM UTC, Ivar Nesje wrote: > > Why does Gitter.io ask for permission to change my personal user data? > That seems unnecessary, and I could not find any explanation on their > website. >
Yes, the requests for permissions did seem excessive to me as well. They seem to get that question a lot, judging from their twitter feed. The answer is here: https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200178961-Why-do-you-ask-for-write-access-to-my-profile- Looks like they're working on getting that fixed in a couple of days: https://twitter.com/gitchat/status/439167682534187008
