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Hi everyone, there was a service outage last night of approximately five hours, from 3am to 8am (AEST).

On a testing basis, to see if it’s useful to anyone, I’ve enabled an IRC gateway.

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.

It’s now one whole year since I opened ChinWag to the public.

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.

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.

Well, it’s been a fairly long process due to this being not much more than a side project, 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.