On 2022-12-08 05:08, Zarandija wrote:

Hello everyone.

many years ago...

I created a Tor mirror (2010) that I still keep up to date, and when I have some money, I create several Tor relay servers. Always for freedom of expression!!!!

My question is, is it still necessary to have Tor mirrors, like https://tor.zilog.es https://tor.zilog.es (mine) to keep the cause?

Thank you all and sorry for my deepl English.

I'm going to say no, there is no value in mirrors at this time.

I turned on some (limited) logging and in a 30 day window only 14 days had any hits, and only once did the number of hits cross into double digits. Many days didn't even have a crawler hit.

The number is so low I was wondering if I got dropped from the mirror list, but I have no idea because I spent a decent chunk of time trying to find the current list of mirrors.

https://gitweb.torproject.org/project/web/webwml.git/plain/include/tor-mirro... has me listed but https://2019.www.torproject.org/getinvolved/mirrors.html.en does not and both of these are from 2019.

Try as I might, I can't imagine any real user who is struggling to access torproject.org managing to stumble across the list of mirrors, negating the value.

Mine is still running due to inertia as it has no ongoing costs, but should I rebuild the server I don't think I would set it up again.