News

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.

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.

Happy New Year, for a start!

The initial version of our local user guide for Chinwag Social, our Mastodon instance, is now live.

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.

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.

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.

About two months ago, there was a big buzz that built up around Mastodon, a decentralised social network.

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.

A great little chat client, Swift, has a new beta of its upcoming 4.