Chinwag Social's code has just been synced up with Mastodon 3.3.2. Please report any issues you might see to us, but we expect this change to be fairly uneventful!

Chinwag Social is currently closed to new registrations due to some bizarre IRC drama related bots signing up everywhere. What is this, 1995? If you want a new account just hold your horses for a bit. We'll be down the pub waiting for all this to blow over.

Hi, new people of Chinwag! Just a note to say that we don't jump quickly into software updates around here and if you're hearing about new features in some version of Mastodon you might not see it for a bit. Also if you signed up via an app, we'd… social.chinwag.org/@chinwagnews/1…

We've requested that Chinwag Social no longer be listed as an available instance on the Join Mastodon site. This does not mean we're going anywhere, just that we'd prefer more organic growth. If you're one of our users, please consider inviting… social.chinwag.org/@chinwagnews/1…

If you're looking for a friendlier online experience, come say hi. You might like it!

Come and join us!

Hi new users and friends! Just wanted to mention that Chinwag's published rules have been mid-rewrite for a while now. While there are not many major changes, we are adding an explicit mention of automatic cross-posting from other… social.chinwag.org/@chinwagnews/1…

Expect downtime for Chinwag services tonight (within the next hour or two from this post). Initial tests seem to indicate the update to 3.5.3 will go fine, but there's only one way to find out, right? We'll take the opportunity to do a… social.chinwag.org/@chinwagnews/1…

Chinwag Social is now running code synced with Mastodon 3.5.3. Please report any odd issues you think might be related to the update. Our instance's source is published here: git.chinwag.org/chinwag/chinwa… Have fun!

A few minor patches and updates on top of the recent Chinwag Social upgrade have now been deployed, and it looks like the last few lingering issues are resolved (fingers crossed). Please let us know if you have any concerns with the service!

The Chinwag Social app for Android has been synced up with Tusky 18, which has a ton of improvements from that side, plus our light Chinwag style and options for new users to sign up with us easily. play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Image uploads were broken on the chinwag.im messaging service for a while today. While this issue is now fixed, it's a bit of a temporary solution and will need some downtime to address properly. This is likely to be about a week away. More updates soon.

We haven't posted about the extras that come with Chinwag Social for a while. There are a couple of main perks beyond the Fedi account. 1) git.chinwag.org is the primary repository for our instance code, but anyone with a Chinwag account can… social.chinwag.org/@chinwagnews/1…

While we're feeling chatty - we'd like to reassure our users that in the event of the current administration being unable to continue running Chinwag services, our exit strategy would involve arranging a handover to someone who could… social.chinwag.org/@chinwagnews/1…

Please do not join Chinwag if you are looking for a replacement for Twitter in your life. Please do join Chinwag if you want to share things with a casual, friendly community with no algorithmic or commercial manipulation of your "engagement". We also have many cat pics.

Chinwag Social registrations have been temporarily disabled until the current wave of people looking for "a Mastodon" has settled down. Current users are still free to issue invitations to join, however. Please feel free to do so if you know anyone who you think should be here!

This will be the last Chinwag News post that will be replicated to our old Twitter account. If you wish to continue following us for service updates via non-fediverse channels, please use the RSS feed! social.chinwag.org/@chinwagnews.r… Thanks!

Apparently it's no longer permitted to #JoinMastodon from here, so might we humbly suggest that you #GetOnTheBlower instead? theblower.au awaits! 😁

This post seems to have become invisible. Maybe we need to contact tech support? 😁

It's the fifth birthday of something Chinwag-related today, and we've got cake and we're having fun and we can't tell any of you people here about what it is or send you a link. Ah well! You all have a nice day then!