It's been a few months since we decided to move to Discourse, after all the Discord sketchy ID verification and AI stuff, leaving our “original home”
If you're new in the Tavern or have been living under a rock – which trust me, is completely fine and, given the actual world situation, scoot over and let me join you – you may be interested in reading To Discourse and beyond
We had to say goodbye to some, we had to hear others grumble, we had to discover how to manage a community in a forum-first environment, with a chat on the side, coming from a community in a chat-first environment and a forum on the side.
It wasn't easy, but it was necessary to protect members who held a lot of friendships and value from The Gamers' Tavern community, but didn’t want to have to sacrifice their privacy and values in order to maintain this.
Fortunately, we weren't the only one shaken by the AI and Age ID shenanigans by Discord. Many developers raced to get an alternative up and running, privacy focused and – hopefully – self-hostable.
Hey everyone!
We updated our Mastodon instance to version 4.5.11 :)
Check out the latest changelogs for version 4.5.10
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The Gamers' Tavern is a cozy place where you can rest and have fun with others gamers. This community main goal is to provide everyone a cozy and safe place to keep in touch and play together.
Hey everyone!
We updated our Peertube server to version 8.2.0 :)
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The Gamers' Tavern is a cozy place where you can rest and have fun with others gamers. This community main goal is to provide everyone a cozy and safe place to keep in touch and play together.
Hey everyone!
We updated our Peertube server to version 8.1.8 :)
Check out the latest changelogs for version 8.1.8
Fortunately our server wasn't impacted by any SQL Injection attempt and no malicious plugin was installed.
Happy content creation!
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The Gamers' Tavern is a cozy place where you can rest and have fun with others gamers. This community main goal is to provide everyone a cozy and safe place to keep in touch and play together.
Hey everyone!
We updated our Mastodon instance to version 4.5.10 :)
Check out the latest changelogs for version 4.5.10
Happy tooting!
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Updates
The Gamers' Tavern is a cozy place where you can rest and have fun with others gamers. This community main goal is to provide everyone a cozy and safe place to keep in touch and play together.
Hey everyone!
We updated our Peertube server to version 8.1.6 :)
Check out the latest changelogs for version 8.1.6
Happy content creation!
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The Gamers' Tavern is a cozy place where you can rest and have fun with others gamers. This community main goal is to provide everyone a cozy and safe place to keep in touch and play together.
For transparency, here’s The Gamers' Tavern’s monthly report for April 2026.
For transparency, here’s The Gamers' Tavern’s monthly report for March 2026.
Hey everyone!
We updated our Peertube server to version 8.1.5 :)
Check out the latest changelogs for version 8.1.5
Happy content creation!
#Peertube #Fediverse #Updates
The Gamers' Tavern is a cozy place where you can rest and have fun with others gamers. This community main goal is to provide everyone a cozy and safe place to keep in touch and play together.
After collecting all the feedbacks from the Rocket.chat trial run, that can be found in this blog post, we decided to slightly change our approach looking for a new home for our safe and cozy community, away from Discord, making the community directly invested in the choice.
What emerged is that it''s increasingly clear that a lot of the Discord alternatives whilst very promising are just not quite ready yet and need more time to bake in various different ways. Put simply, all of them have trade offs and drawbacks unique to each. Discourse was a big hit with the community and it was with the staff too.
So we decided to shift our focus to Discourse, but why?