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Chinwag Release 4.3.2
We’re pleased to announce the release and deployment of Chinwag Social v4.3.2! Release Highlights This release incorporates mostly minor fixes and updates from the previous release, and some small, mostly-cosmetic changes to the theme. About Chinwag Social Chinwag is a “soft” fork of Mastodon, and is intended to maintain feature parity and compatibility with it…
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Deffo Shutdown
We’ve been going back and forth on whether or not to keep Deffo online, and we’ve landed on “nah”. Mobilizon was something we were really keen on the idea of when it was first announced, but it’s just not working out like we hoped, and now we have some odd technical issues with it that…
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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, Mastodon had extremely basic theme options, and no light mode theme at all. For someone who has trouble reading dark themes, Mastodon was extremely inaccessible and it was actually easier…
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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 being announced here though. Sort of. As of now, the original domain we used, chinwag.im, now redirects to the new chinwag.au web site. We used the IM domain back at…
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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 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…
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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 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…
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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 the example for was published, and it went live.
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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 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,…
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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 and support for some older encryption standards will be dropped.