Been thinking about the purposeful choice to deprecate .onion short addresses with no backward compatibility. At the end of this month, all those addresses simply go away. It's a very intelligent move for .onion but of course goes against the Open Web's principles. Thoughts?

Jul 12, 2021 · 6:41 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
There should be an opportunity to convert to another service.
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I think that statement is true all the time. In fact I wish we embraced it as a matter of fact. There are changing that works there have been as long as there has been Network Services! So you hit on something really good there thank you!
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Security! Deprecating short addressing means more complex addressing, more mirrors - and yes, more problems in some ways but it absolutely keeps the encryption and distribution of .onion networking. In a sense, it's like a snake renewing its skin ;-)