On Friday, February 4, 2022 3:15:52 PM CET Fran via tor-relays wrote:
Tor project runs campaigns for running more bridges [1-3] because there was/is (?) a shortage and/or countries changed their censorship policy (e. g. Russia). So I'd say the statement in the FAQ is a little bit to simple. At different times a shortage of one or the other node might occur. :)
Yeah, the number of Tor bridges has almost doubled in the last weeks.
I think the answer might also depend on what kind of servers you are able to run.
That mainly depends on your monthly bandwidth. Under 10 TB/month -> run some bridges. From 50 TB/month a guard,middle,exit relay is worthwhile.
If you don't use HiddenServiceSingleHopMode for you onion services, six tor nodes are in between the visitor and the server which results in a lot of bandwidth usage in the tor network. So some non-exits might also be handy in case onion service usage picks up.
Exits are or do everything: guard, middle, exit, HSDir, Intro & rendezvous point ;-)
Very good suggestion recently in this list¹: Set up new relays/IPs as bridges first and then later change them to relays.
¹Mmm, I'm getting old. I think that was toralf or Felix.