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Chinwag: The Next Generation
Since we first deployed a Mastodon instance, back in the wild times of 2017, the defining characteristic of Chinwag has been its style. Back then,…
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Deprecation is a Cool Word
It’s just so much fun to say “deprecation” but it’s not so much fun to say something that you use is deprecated. That’s not what’s…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Chinwag Social
The initial version of our local user guide for Chinwag Social, our Mastodon instance, is now live. https://chinwag.im/social/ You can sign up at https://social.chinwag.org/about –…
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Getting Strict
From this week, we will be getting very strict about the standards of services we federate with. Invalid or expired certificates will no longer be accepted…
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Current Chinwag Services
A few updates, and some new features have been added to the Chinwag stable. Here’s an updated list of everything we have running right now.
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ChinWag Will Obey the Laws of Mathematics
Despite recent comments that “the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia” and that legislation could override mathematical principles, we would…
