notes from running a 24/7 tor client: outages, weird latency spikes and other things that make badges jump.
A practical walkthrough of running your own onion site: the torrc directives that matter, how v3 keys work, and the operational mistakes that have unmasked operators.
Onion uptime badges are easy to fake and hard to earn. We break down probe frequency, retry discipline, timeout choices, and why single-check monitors mislead.
congestion control, onion service latency work and the arti rewrite: a status check on the tor network's performance roadmap, and what still needs to land.
why Google ignores .onion entirely, what onion search engines can and cannot see, and how discovery really works inside the tor network.
where tor browser stands after the version 14 rebase: faster security updates, android parity, and what the next releases are lining up.
