commit 28cf02d8524357a0b6fcf451aece450a9db7953d Author: nyxnor nyxnor@protonmail.com Date: Fri Jul 2 00:36:58 2021 +0000
onion service page mention about v2 deprecation on troubleshooting and remove it from the main part --- content/onion-services/contents.lr | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/content/onion-services/contents.lr b/content/onion-services/contents.lr index 8334f0c..67e7b6a 100644 --- a/content/onion-services/contents.lr +++ b/content/onion-services/contents.lr @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Onion services offer several advantages over ordinary services on the non-privat
### HOW TO ACCESS AN ONION SERVICE
-Just like any other website, you will need to know the address of an onion service in order to connect to it. An onion address is a string of 16 (and in V3 format, 56) mostly random letters and numbers, followed by ".onion". +Just like any other website, you will need to know the address of an onion service in order to connect to it. An onion address is a string of 56 mostly random letters and numbers, followed by ".onion".
When accessing a website that uses an onion service, Tor Browser will show in the URL bar an icon of an onion displaying the state of your connection: secure and using an onion service. You can learn more about the onion site that you are visiting by looking at the Circuit Display. @@ -70,4 +70,6 @@ If you cannot reach the onion service you requested, make sure that you have ent
If you are still unable to connect to the onion service after verifying the address, please try again later. There may be a temporary connection issue, or the site operators may have allowed it to go offline without warning.
+If they onion service you are trying to access consists of a string of 16 characters (V2 format), this type of address is [being deprecated](https://support.torproject.org/onionservices/v2-deprecation/). + You can also test if you are able to access other onion services by connecting to [DuckDuckGo's Onion Service](http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/).