We updated our Mastodon instance to 4.6.4! Check out the latest change log for this version here.

Happy tooting!

Jamie @ TGT

#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.

It’s your friendly neighbourhood gaming-giraffe here, and I wanted to address something which we as a mod team have noticed is becoming more divisive.

Artificial Intelligence.

It’s a topic which provokes strong opinions, and it’s one which some of our members are understandably sensitive about.

At The Gamers’ Tavern, our mission is to create a cozy and safe home where people can find community through gaming, away from some of the pressures and noise outside the tavern walls. To that end we are updating our rules to help ensure that members have control over the discussion topics they see which relate to AI, whilst still supporting open conversation.

Going forward we would ask everyone to consider AI to be a sensitive topic, on a par with the others previously mentioned in the rules (politics, religion, etc), and apply good judgement and common sense in how it is handled.

• Make appropriate use of Content Warnings (CWs) and use the tag ‘AI’ when posting on Mastodon and Discourse;
• Any AI related content should be tagged on Peertube/Pixelfed, and any AI generated content should continue to be labelled as such

This allows members to choose to avoid specific AI related content, mute all posts related to AI, or engage with the topic on their own terms.

Given that this is an addendun to the rules we will foresee a time-cushion of about a month between the rule being published and the rule being enforced by the staff.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to reach out to me or any of the Mod Team.

Thank you.

Missiongiraffe @ TGT

#Rules #AI

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.

We updated our Peertube server to version 8.2.3 for additional security fixes, see the changelog for version 8.2.3

Happy content creation!

Alex @ TGT

#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.

Check out the latest changelogs for version 0.17.1

Happy blogging!

Alex @ TGT

#Writefreely #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.

Check out the latest changelogs for version 0.17.0

Unfortunately, there's more. Before we could apply the fix, we've been targeted by a spam botnet that registered a lot of users (you'll find the comprehensive list in the second section of the post) and blog posts using the new security hole discovered that the 0.17.0 version addressed. By our investigation the attack happened between yesterday (2026-07-17) and today (2026-07-18)

To reassure you, no data was leaked, the bots were only able to create a blog (named as their username) and a fake post. Nonetheless, this is far from ideal as you may understand and given that the updates for the open source version of Writefreely (compared to write.as, the closed and paid version) are limited and dragging, we will consider moving our blogs to a new service, self-hosted and privacy-first, as always.

Needless to say, the database has been sanitized, the bots have been kicked in the arse and all the fake posts/blogs have been deleted.

Happy blogging!

Alex @ TGT

#Writefreely #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.

Check out the latest changelogs for version 4.6.3

Happy tooting!

Alex @ TGT

#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.

Costs

One time

Total: 0,00 € Notes: -

Monthly

Total: 89,53€ Notes: -

• OVH Cloud: Writefreely, Owncast and Peertube, IRC, The Lounge, Satisfactory Dedicated Server, Project Zomboid Dedicated Server
• Hetzner: Pixelfed Glitch, Mastodon Glitch, Status page, Object Storage, Discourse, ElasticSearch

Applied exchange rate 1 USD ≈ 0,95 EUR

Annual

Total: 39,02€ Notes: Domain registration will be paid in August '26

Donations

One time

Total: 10,00 € Notes: -

Recurring

Total: 68,00 € Notes: -

Balance

#2026 #June #MonthlyReport

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.

Costs

One time

Total: 0,00 € Notes: -

Monthly

Total: 89,53€ Notes: -

• OVH Cloud: Writefreely, Owncast and Peertube, IRC, The Lounge, Satisfactory Dedicated Server, Project Zomboid Dedicated Server
• Hetzner: Pixelfed Glitch, Mastodon Glitch, Status page, Object Storage, Discourse, ElasticSearch

Applied exchange rate 1 USD ≈ 0,95 EUR

Annual

Total: 39,02€ Notes: Domain registration will be paid in August '26

Donations

One time

Total: 13,00 € Notes: -

Recurring

Total: 53,00 € Notes: -

Balance

#2026 #May #MonthlyReport

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.

There was plenty to like about Fluxer (although this was a bit buggy 😅). It’s Discord-style interface made it instantly familiar and easy to jump straight into conversations. Voice chat and screensharing built-in. Development was moving quickly and it’s open source nature gives it a promising future. We could also see the potential for it hosting additional communities alongside The Gamers’ Tavern.

However, after the staff have carefully considered all of the feedback given, we’ve decided that The Gamers’ Tavern will continue to call Discourse our home. The majority felt like Fluxer wasn’t well suited to the kind of in-depth and long-form discussions which have become a core part of TGT since our migration from Discord to Discourse earlier this year. The asynchronous nature of Discourse’s forums allows our patrons to participate in the community regardless of their time zone or day-to-day life, and conversations remain relevant and easy to return to days, weeks and even months later! And the chat plugin is good enough and has plenty of emojis, stickers and gifs to get us by!

Other features such as calendar events allow us to easily tell each other about our upcoming streams and organise when the next TGT “Get Together” will be. Or the native use of RSS feeds to create posts about the latest gaming news. The feature set has become invaluable to our community.

That said, one concern that stood out above everything else. We simply don’t want to split the community! Even running both platforms side by side would likely introduce duplicate discussions and risk the community becoming separated based on platform preference. We don’t want that, and we don’t think you want that either. We’ve got an awesome bunch of weirdos people here and it would be a great shame to spoil that!

It’s clear that Fluxer is still in its early stages. Mobile apps are still in beta and several of the features we’d consider important are either missing or still in development. We’ll definitely keep an eye on Fluxer’s development and if it reaches the point where it could genuinely meet the needs for our community, then we may trial it again in the future. But for now, we’re waving goodbye to Fluxer. 👋

Please note; On 11/07/2026, all data from The Gamers’ Tavern’s Fluxer instance will be deleted. If there is anything you want save, please ensure you do so before this date. Thank you!

#TheGamersTavern #Fluxer

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.

Happy – and safe – content creation!

Alex @ TGT

#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.