sajolida's report for September 2025
Tails ===== Project 165 ----------- - Fixed all the less critical updates to our website for Tails 7.0: screenshots, style, advanced topics, etc.. (#20203) Overall, we applied more than 60 updates to our website and identified 10 other issues that were not triggered by Tails 7.0. - Wrote the lengthy release notes for Tails 7.0. (#21046) https://tails.net/news/version_7.0/ - Interviewed Joshua, an IT specialist who uses Tails both at work and at home. Despite Joshua not matching our personas, we learned a couple of interesting things. https://tails.net/contribute/how/user_experience/interviews/joshua/ - Updated the version of balenaEtcher and Rufus on our website. (#20989) Misc ---- - Made plans with intrigeri to migrate the homepage of Tor Browser in Tails to about:tor in time for the Year End Campaign. (#21003) - Removed the sponsors page from our website and tore down the infrastructure that we had to send newsletter to donors. * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/work_items/399 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/work_items/382 Other Tor products ================== Tor Browser ----------- - Started preparing usability tests on the display of multi-path circuits (aka. Conflux) in Tor Browser Android and desktop. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/168 Tor VPN ------- - Tested Tor VPN 1.0.0 Beta against the usability issues identified in August 2024 and reported 4 issues: * Connects despite being configured to use a bogus bridge https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/vpn/-/issues/378 * Tapping on the circuit icon doesn't open the circuit view https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/vpn/-/issues/379 * "No internet" displays network activity and app protection widgets on Internet deconnection https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/vpn/-/issues/380 * Disable "Exit location" in "Configure" screen instead of hiding it when disconnected https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/vpn/-/issues/382 -- sajolida The Tor Project — UX Designer
Tor Browser =========== Project 163 ----------- - Conducted usability tests of multi-path circuits (aka. Conflux) in the circuit display. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/168 I just finished the last session this afternoon. All the logistics went extremely well. Now I'll start the analysis. While preparing the tests, we discussed the "ResearchOps" quite a bit with Alicia to come up with more standard procedures to screen participant, give them incentives, and conduting remote research. All this with make it easier, faster, and cheaper to run usability tests in the future. Tails ===== Project 165 ----------- - Updated our doc to Thunderbird 140. (#20772) - Improve consistency when refering to /usr/lib/live/mount/medium/ in our doc. (#21239) Year-End Campaign ----------------- - Designed and implemented a customized version of about:tor for Tor Browser in Tails. (#21003) We rushed to get this in Tails 7.1 in time for the YEC. Next steps: * Review the design with Priscila https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/21260 * Upstream our changes to Tor Browser https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44201 - Implemented the YEC banner on the website. (#21111) https://tails.net/ - Relayed the first blog post on Tails news. (#21240) https://tails.net/news/free_the_internet/ Donate ====== - Triaged the 6 small usability issues that are left to solved on donate-neo from my feedback from August 2024. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/donate-neo/-/issues/168 -- sajolida The Tor Project — UX Designer
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