Hello tor, I wrapped the last two months here, so this is quite long.
We joined Mozilla during All Hands in Orlando. We had insightful conversations about privacy, users and security and privacy settings.
We reached a consensus about the next version of our Security Settings. With this iteration, we are trying to balance security and usability and a better understanding about what each security level trade-off is for users as well. The latest prototype allows clicks here: https://marvelapp.com/a66fg97/screen/50307815
Dunqan, an advocate designer, worked on the Onboardingto introduce our new Security Settings to users. This iteration will allow us to explain to users how security settings work and also to fix two bugs from the previous version. You can see it in action here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28628
Tor Browser new icon implementation reached our alphas and will see the light during our stable release in TB85. Since you were part of this work, you can sneak peek how TB will look next: https://share.riseup.net/#cWuwkUMcV6fORQaj5EFYzA
Wanda Arca, a designer from Argentina, made an animated version of the new TB icon, you can enjoy it here: https://share.riseup.net/#t6oppakZeK228VedKJyJTw
The second alpha for Tor Browser for Android was released, and we are working towards next sprint, TBA-a3. We want to offer users a simple way to connect to the tor network and also enable censored users to decide to connect via bridges if it is needed. Some of this work is still in progress here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28329
Elio and OONI folks are working on the new version of OONI Explorer. We iterated over the Measurement Result pages to match the concept and the layout with the recently release OONI Probe, and we are working on Country pages right now. You can see the work in progress here: https://xd.adobe.com/spec/2f585e0f-1a7e-4f6c-41f9-fa411520998e-5969/
We are planning to run usability testing in January for the new OONI Explorer Country pages. If you are a researcher or someone who use OONI Explorer a lot, we want to hear your feedback of what we are building!
We joined forces with the network team to allow users to run Snowflake in more diverse ways. One of those ways will be a browser web extension. We are working on it and will be part of a huge 2019 milestone that aims to help censored users to reach the Internet. See the first intent here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23888#comment:5
The new torproject.org is now ready for review on staging. Is still a work in progress and we aim to release it during Q119. http://lektor-staging.torproject.org/
Hiro presented Onions in Containers during DockerCon Europe 18. She talked about how .onion can grow using Docker containers and what are the benefits of doing it for end users. https://dockerconeurope18.smarteventscloud.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESS...
And as a closure, in 2018 we released TB8 with several usability improvements, we worked on TBA to match the experience that users have in desktop, we launched support.torproject.org as the primary source for users to find answers to their questions. Also, we traveled over four countries in the global-south to raise the voices of our users and their experiences in local contexts, and we worked across teams to support them with visual, UI and UX design.
As we look forward to 2019, I hope to continue offering solutions to users all over the world to reach the internet privately and safely.
Happy holidays folks!
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