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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!

  • Service Outage

    Service Outage

    Hi everyone, there was a service outage last night of approximately five hours, from 3am to 8am (AEST). This was due to an configuration file error that prevented a restart […] Continue Reading →

  • IRC Gateway

    IRC Gateway

    On a testing basis, to see if it’s useful to anyone, I’ve enabled an IRC gateway. This allows you to use your XMPP client to connect to an IRC channel […] Continue Reading →

  • Moving to Movim

    Moving to Movim

    Since I started this little project, one of the main things I’ve been looking for is a decent web interface for chatting. I’ve tested and rejected a lot of things. […] Continue Reading →

  • Happy Birthday!

    Happy Birthday!

    It’s now one whole year since I opened ChinWag to the public. As a result I’ve met some great people, chatted with a bunch of you from all over the […] Continue Reading →