• Mastodon Deployed

    Mastodon Deployed

    About two months ago, there was a big buzz that built up around Mastodon, a decentralised social network. I was really busy with the Melbourne Comedy Festival at the time, […]

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  • Inactive Account Purges

    Inactive Account Purges

    ChinWag is coming up on two years old now, so there are a few “I’ll worry about that later” jobs that I now need to start worrying about. Inactive account […]

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  • Swift IM Beta

    Swift IM Beta

    A great little chat client, Swift, has a new beta of its upcoming 4.0 release available and I’d encourage all ChinWag users to check it out if you’re looking for […]

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  • 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 […]

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  • 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 […]

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  • 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. […]

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  • 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 […]

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