https://chinwag.org/ Recent content in Welcome to Chinwag! on Chinwag Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 11 May 2015 23:03:46 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2019/05/13/happy-4th-birthday/ Mon, 13 May 2019 23:00:13 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2019/05/13/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. https://chinwag.org/2018/05/13/three-years-of-chinwag/ Sun, 13 May 2018 21:17:57 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2018/05/13/three-years-of-chinwag/ It&rsquo;s been three whole years since the final part of the &ldquo;How to set up a public XMPP server&rdquo; series of articles that Chinwag was the example for was published, and it went live. https://chinwag.org/2018/01/08/chinwag-in-2018/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:26:15 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2018/01/08/chinwag-in-2018/ Happy New Year, for a start! https://chinwag.org/2017/12/22/chinwag-social/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:06:31 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2017/12/22/chinwag-social/ The initial version of our local user guide for Chinwag Social, our Mastodon instance, is now live. https://chinwag.org/social/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:51:10 +1000 https://chinwag.org/social/ Chinwag Social is our local Mastodon instance. Mastodon is Twitter-style social networking combined with email-style instanced servers. An account here allows you to share and interact with thousands of other similar services. You can use it via a clean web interface, or download and use one of many apps for mobile devices. https://chinwag.org/2017/11/26/getting-strict/ Sun, 26 Nov 2017 00:52:46 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2017/11/26/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. https://chinwag.org/2017/10/23/current-chinwag-services/ Mon, 23 Oct 2017 01:28:57 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2017/10/23/current-chinwag-services/ A few updates, and some new features have been added to the Chinwag stable. Here&rsquo;s an updated list of everything we have running right now. https://chinwag.org/2017/07/14/chinwag-will-obey-the-laws-of-mathematics/ Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:55:53 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2017/07/14/chinwag-will-obey-the-laws-of-mathematics/ Despite recent comments that &ldquo;the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia&rdquo; and that legislation could override mathematical principles, we would like to assure our users that we will continue to obey the latter. https://chinwag.org/2017/06/27/mastodon-deployed/ Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:32:47 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2017/06/27/mastodon-deployed/ About two months ago, there was a big buzz that built up around Mastodon, a decentralised social network. https://chinwag.org/2017/01/21/inactive-account-purges/ Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:08:29 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2017/01/21/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. https://chinwag.org/2016/08/11/swift-im-beta/ Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:58:15 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2016/08/11/swift-im-beta/ A great little chat client, Swift, has a new beta of its upcoming 4. https://chinwag.org/2016/08/11/service-outage/ Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:31:30 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2016/08/11/service-outage/ Hi everyone, there was a service outage last night of approximately five hours, from 3am to 8am (AEST). https://chinwag.org/2016/06/12/irc-gateway/ Sun, 12 Jun 2016 22:04:03 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2016/06/12/irc-gateway/ On a testing basis, to see if it’s useful to anyone, I’ve enabled an IRC gateway. https://chinwag.org/2016/06/09/moving-to-movim/ Thu, 09 Jun 2016 17:56:32 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2016/06/09/moving-to-movim/ The Movim Chats view Since I started this little project, one of the main things I’ve been looking for is a decent web interface for chatting. https://chinwag.org/2016/05/13/happy-birthday/ Fri, 13 May 2016 23:49:52 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2016/05/13/happy-birthday/ It’s now one whole year since I opened ChinWag to the public. https://chinwag.org/2015/10/08/chinwag-privacy-and-metadata/ Thu, 08 Oct 2015 16:54:36 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2015/10/08/chinwag-privacy-and-metadata/ It’s now a handful of days until Australia’s new metadata retention laws come into effect, and I just wanted to publish a quick note about how this does and does not affect your usage of ChinWag for messaging, as ChinWag is Australian-hosted and pitched primarily as a provider of services primarily to Australians. https://chinwag.org/2015/05/15/simple-chat-room-access/ Fri, 15 May 2015 15:22:12 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2015/05/15/simple-chat-room-access/ We’re still quite a long way from the slick, integrated experience I’ve got in mind as a long-term goal, but as of now there’s a really simple page you can go to for quick access to the Lobby and any other chat rooms you might want to create or use. https://chinwag.org/webchat/ Thu, 14 May 2015 17:09:34 +1000 https://chinwag.org/webchat/ Log in with your full JID, username@chinwag. https://chinwag.org/setup/ Wed, 13 May 2015 15:56:34 +1000 https://chinwag.org/setup/ With a huge list of possible client software, it’s hard to give complete setup instructions for everything. https://chinwag.org/2015/05/13/welcome-to-chinwag/ Wed, 13 May 2015 14:53:11 +1000 https://chinwag.org/2015/05/13/welcome-to-chinwag/ <p>Well, it’s been a fairly long process due to this being not much more than <a href="http://bremensaki.com/chinwag/" target="_blank">a side project</a>, but ChinWag is a fully functional XMPP service right now. There’s more to come, especially on the web site front-end, but for now I’m considering the site launched, and bless all those who sail in her.</p> https://chinwag.org/support/ Wed, 13 May 2015 14:44:14 +1000 https://chinwag.org/support/ Not sure what’s going on? https://chinwag.org/register/ Tue, 12 May 2015 19:30:53 +1000 https://chinwag.org/register/ If you don’t already have a chinwag.