back to article Tor kills cloud-bundling bridge software because nobody will maintain it

Lack of people willing to keep its code updated has led the Tor Project to kill off its Amazon Web EC2 instances and the Tor Cloud service they ran. While Tor Cloud was a neat idea – let users run up Tor bridges on Amazon and donate that bandwidth to Tor for other users – software has to be maintained, and nobody wants the job …

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  2. fredsmith999

    Cant they get tor users to use their absurdly generous 1 year aws trials to speed it up for free

    1. midcapwarrior

      AWS trials

      Not sure how the trials will increase the number of developers.

      Not a speed issue.

      It's a functionality/bug issue as in "The worst bug: in packaging the Tor Cloud image, someone forgot to include Tor, meaning anyone trying to use it had to do so manually. The high-priority bug referred to is expired keys in the package."

    2. phil dude

      better be quick, if you live in the UK....

      T. May is determined to make it illegal to hide anything from the Govt.

      I still find the irony in Tor being funded by Dept of State against despotic regimes, only to have domestic Govts prove totally proficient at despotism but on a politically targeted and economic basis.

      A nice idea, however...

      P.

  3. Sir Runcible Spoon
    Holmes

    Sir

    Isn't this the kind of thing that Kickstarter would be ideal for?

    Or do people only put money to card games of exploding kittens?

    1. craigb

      Re: Sir

      Or do people only put money to card games of exploding kittens?

      I've definitely been looking in the wrong parts of KS. All I did was contribute to Star Traders 2. Feels kind of weak now.

      Is the pieces of pussy card game still running? Link?

      1. Sir Runcible Spoon
        Facepalm

        Re: Sir

        Here ya go

        Exploding Kittens

        Collected over $8.5m if you can believe that.

        A search will bring up more of the shameful details of how fucked up this planet has finally become. Not that I'm bemoaning the creation of such a card game, but there are worthier causes for people's excess cash I'm sure.

  4. NoneSuch Silver badge

    Exploding Kittens

    When society does collapse, the speed of it will be staggering.

    1. Sir Runcible Spoon

      Re: Exploding Kittens

      100% agree. It will probably resemble the event horizon of a black hole.

      1. Mike Moyle

        Re: Exploding Kittens

        "It will probably resemble the event horizon of a black hole."

        Then at least it will SEEM like forever before it happens!

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