Closing up Shop As interesting as it has been we've found ourselves at a crossroad, the administrative and financial costs of continuing this service have risen. While the personal situations and priorities of the volunteers involved (particularly myself) have changed. Today we regretfully inform the public that the service is coming to an
Meta Perthchat.org Launches Fundraising Effort! Today Perthchat.org is launching a fundraising effort to help grow Australia's largest public Matrix service!
Meta ChatGPT comes to Perthchat! Perthchat.org users can now access ChatGPT through the new bot on our Matrix service!
Meta Perthchat.org Reopens Registration It's time to celebrate! Thanks to a generous benefactor, we now have the means to make the service go public again. We have an excess of bandwidth and storage that should be enough for a few years. Registration is now open again but requires an email address. The old token
News Why WA's Voluntary Assisted Dying Act Isn't Enough Warning: This article contains references to death and suicide, if this is a problem for you then please don't read it. If you're in a crisis please contact Lifeline on: 13 11 14 Meet my grandmother Aileen She is 97 years old. When she was a teenager WW2 broke out
Matrix So long and thanks for all the fish! It’s been over 4 and a half years since I created this service, what a wild ride. We’ve laughed, loved, shared priceless memories, praised our lord and saviour Stallman. It’s brought me a lot of joy to be able to leave social media and build a community
Meta Perthchat's New Android App! Today we’re proud to announce an expansion to Perthchat’s service, our new Android application! This feature rich Matrix client is a fork of the popular Element Android [https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/] client that’s been re-branded with our logo and name. It was created as a promotional
News Perth Vaccine Mandate Protest Sees Large Attendance Disclaimer: We are not confirming the claims of anyone interviewed in this video. This Saturday's vaccine mandate protest saw over a thousand people attend, a considerably higher turnout than previous protests held elsewhere under lockdown conditions. The Perth event, as part of a national set of rallies, began in Forrest
News YouTube-DL Removed From GitHub After DMCA Notice Friday night on the 23rd of October the ‘Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA)’ sent a DMCA request [https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md]to GitHub asking that the popular YouTube downloading software ‘youtube-dl’ be taken down. GitHub responded as by immediately removing the
Meta Welcome to Perthchat News! Today we see it branch out into a news-agency, whether the articles posted here will be of any significance remains to be seen.