Hi! This is my July 2023 report!


In July, I resolved 1080 tickets:
    
On Telegram (@TorProjectSupportBot) - 786
On RT (frontdesk@tpo) - 276
Additionally, I resolved 13 tickets on WhatsApp (+447421000612)
and 5 on Signal (+17787431312).

Most of the tickets I deal with are related to censorship circumvention in Russian-speaking countries - bridges and troubleshooting around them. I also gathered user feedback on what worked for them and what did not prove helpful.

In July, I noticed a trend in users from Russian-speaking countries to use little-t-tor on Windows by adding bridges directly in torrc, mostly obfs4 and meek. We believe they are using little-t-tor to proxy other applications in their operating systems. So I spent some time gathering best practices to share with users. 

This month we started testing the new, WebTunnel bridge[1], so I prepared templates for our support channels, added them, and started gathering users' feedback.

This month I devoted significant time to editing support templates to keep them relevant and up-to-date.

I continued working on Conjure feedback, gathering logs and discussing with users their experience with this type of pluggable transport.

[1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/team/-/issues/94