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  • Chinwag Social

    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 – please let us know if […]

  • Getting Strict

    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.

  • Current Chinwag Services

    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.

  • ChinWag Will Obey the Laws of Mathematics

    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.

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. […]