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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 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 like to assure our users that we will continue to obey the latter.
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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
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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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. […]