On Monday, March 25, 2019 at 7:44:31 PM UTC-7, Andrew David Wong wrote:
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> On 24/03/2019 7.30 PM, Andrew David Wong wrote:
> > Dear Qubes Community,
> > 
> > We regret to announce that the Qubes Tor onion services will no longer
> > be maintained due to lack of resources. This includes all Qubes onion
> > services, including the Qubes website onion mirror and the onion package
> > repos.
> > 
> > We would like to thank the Whonix Project for generously maintaining
> > these services for over a year. [1] Maintaining the Tor onion services
> > requires labor, servers, and bandwidth. Unfortunately, none of these
> > resources are available to the Qubes OS or Whonix projects in sufficient
> > quantities to allow us to continue offering these services.
> > 
> > We recommend that users who currently rely on any Qubes onion addresses
> > transition to the corresponding clearnet addresses immediately.
> > 
> > 
> > [1] 
> > https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/23/qubes-whonix-next-gen-tor-onion-services/
> > 
> > This announcement is also available on the Qubes website:
> > https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2019/03/24/tor-onion-services-no-longer-maintained/
> > 
> 
> Dear Qubes Community,
> 
> Thank you all for your support. Unman has generously agreed to bring the
> Qubes Tor onion services back and maintain them. He has considerable
> experience in hosting and infrastructure management, including running
> onion services. He is working on it now. We'll have another update for
> you soon.
> 
> Thank you, unman!
> 
> - -- 
> Andrew David Wong (Axon)
> Community Manager, Qubes OS
> https://www.qubes-os.org
> 
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Thank you, Unman for taking this on.  I still think the larger issue is that 
the qubes and whonix teams are severely resource strapped.  It is truly a David 
and Goliath situation between them and the Wintel money machine.  We need to 
give these guys all the financial support we can.

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