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Happy Birthday, Chinwag!
Our Fediverse instance at https://social.chinwag.org came online on December 18th, 2017! That’s eight whole years ago today! Chinwag has been (and is) the umbrella for many services, but this one’s definitely our biggest and most important. It’s been a super fun time and we’ve got more fun to come! The timing of our birthday puts…
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Chinwag Release 4.4.7
We have now released and deployed Chinwag 4.4.7! This is mostly a minor update from 4.4.5, but we have introduced one additional fix for an issue still unaddressed in Mastodon, related to preview cards not being generated for some web sites. Examples of the link previews before and after the update are below. Was there…
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Chinwag Release 4.4.5
We have now released and deployed Chinwag 4.4.5! This version brings us to feature parity with Mastodon 4.4.5 and TangerineUI 2.4.4, and includes some minor updates to our Chingerine style from the previous 4.4.4 Release Candidate, making blockquote backgrounds and related elements a little less visually jarring. This version is now live for all Chinwag…
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Chinwag Release 4.3.8
Chinwag 4.3.8 has been released, this is a fairly minor bugfix release that just merges in the Mastodon 4.3.8 release changes. There are no Chinwag theme changes or any further customisations from the 4.3.7 release. This release is now live on Chinwag Social for all users.
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Chinwag Tomorrow
Mike here! How’s it going? You good? I usually write Chinwag “official” posts in a bit of an abstracted and formal third-person form, but this time we’re going to pull up a chair in front of a fire and have a little chat instead. See, I kind of let it drift by without comment at…
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Chinwag Release 4.3.7
Today we’re releasing and deploying Chinwag 4.3.7, primarily containing bug fixes, but also incorporating a new filter feature adopted in an out-of-cycle release last week. The features and fixes in this update should help reduce the amount of spam seen by our users, but there are no functional changes. This release is now live on…
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Chinwag Updates – March 2025
New updates have been published for both Chinwag Social and Chinwag Social for Android. Chinwag Social We have released Chinwag 4.3.6 which is now live at https://social.chinwag.org/ for all users. This is primarily a security and bugfix update, but includes the notable new feature to respect a user’s personal hashtag capitalisation preferences when making suggestions,…
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Chinwag Release 4.3.3
We’re pleased to announce Chinwag Social v4.3.3! Release Highlights This is a minor update release, which syncs us up with some bug fixes in Mastodon 4.3.3. There are some minor changes to the default theming, in that the Fediverse logo in the corner is now in colour! That corner just needed a bit of brightening…
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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…
