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Chinwag Services

Here’s some of the things we run that you might want to use!

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Chinwag Social

Our flagship social media platform. You don’t need to be Australian to post here, but it might help.

Yellow Plastic

Yellow Plastic is a discussion forum for retrocomputing and older technology projects.

Chinwag Code

Any projects we modify or create are shared here, and we’re happy to provide some space for our users as well!

  • Go Hard or Go Home

    Go Hard or Go Home

    Hi everyone! Mike here. I usually write Chinwag announcements in the third person, because I don’t know why. It was a thing I started, and I liked separating the housekeeping from my personal posts and updates. This time will be different! This isn’t a catastrophic post or bad news or anything like that – let’s… Continue Reading →

  • Happy 4th Birthday!

    Happy 4th Birthday!

    I’m just scraping in with about an hour to spare here – I planned a much bigger post, with lots of reflection about where we’ve been and where we’re going. A summary of some notable events maybe … but today turned out to be really busy and lots of work happened instead. Anyway, today marks… Continue Reading →

  • Three Years of Chinwag!

    Three Years of Chinwag!

    It’s been three whole years since the final part of the “How to set up a public XMPP server” series of articles that Chinwag was the example for was published, and it went live. Continue Reading →

  • Chinwag in 2018

    Chinwag in 2018

    Happy New Year, for a start! Hope you’re having a good one so far! In a couple of months, it’ll be three years since Chinwag went live. It started out as a tutorial on how to set up your own XMPP server, and I nearly shut it down at the end of writing that. Instead,… Continue Reading →