This community effort started in 2026 as an effort to keep the PG+ codebase alive by making it compatible with modern Linux systems and patching security issues. There is a separate, and similarly unofficial “companion” repository of various patches.
Copied from the project’s README:
Playground Plus is a multi-user chat server (“talker”) with a rich history stretching back to the early 1990s. Originally built on the EW-Too codebase, it evolved through Summink and Playground 96 into Playground+, which became one of the most widely deployed talker platforms of its era.
This release brings PG+ into the modern age. It builds cleanly on current 64-bit Linux systems with zero errors and zero warnings, fixes critical security vulnerabilities, and replaces deprecated system APIs - all while preserving the talker experience that operators and users know.
The project does not purport to change ownership, copyright, etc., from the original authors of Playground Plus:
- Richard Lawrence (Silver)
- J. Bradley Christian (Phypor)
- Jeoffrey Swift (Blimey)
Ed. note: This archive is listing the last known maintainers of the 2026 variant as the “authors” within the archive metadata.