Are there currently any issues with tag suggestions? I have some over a month old still marked as Pending. Granted, especially manga tags usually take longer because presumably, somebody has to read it, but this also applies to rather trivial cases (like Cover on Image #25639 with an accompanying link to its source). There are processed and accepted suggestions in-between the pending streaks, so I'm not sure if some perhaps never got into the queue in the first place? But then there's those which are Pending but clearly have been acted on (i.e. the merger of the Author:777 and Author:Emptyayya tags) so I'm mostly just confused now.
On an unrelated note, I feel like I should demystify the darknet here: The vast majority of .onion services is rather boring activism and nerd stuff. Turns out that people who understand the true capabilities of surveillance software all become paranoiacs. Go figure. Anyway, the majority of traffic is just mostly clear-web mirrors of utilities like the Internet Archive, a collection of DEFCON talks, Debian, privacy-frontends like Fijxu's Breezwiki, Redlib and Invidious instances, random queer blogs, no-KYC companies like Mullvad, ProtonMail or Njalla or simply activism stuff, like Amnesty International, Bellingcat, the EFF or of course the Tor Project itself.
After those you have a surprisingly large amount of normie sites that have for whatever a reason an onion mirror. Like Reddit. Or Facebook. Or even the microblogging site. Most of those hardly work, if at all, and are absolutely pointless (logging in kind of defies the point of anonymity, eh?) so I dunno why they even exist. Mayhaps some bored IT intern felt lile fiddling around with Tor for an afternoon or two and "MuH, oUr SiTe WiLl bE iMmUnE tO CeNsOrShIp At No AdDiTiOnAl CoSt" actually worked on their idiot superiors...
Anyway, after that you're looking at, I guess, "crime" if you want to call it that. Y'know, just like how this is a horrible crime forum and we're all hostis humani generis.
Then, you got scams. People banking on some idiot browsing the darknet believing what movies told them and wiring you some cryptocurrency for illicit goods. Clearly, the people who can apparently fix premier league cricket matches never considered profiting of sports betting themselves, suuuuuuuuure.
After that, you get actual crime, which is more or less evenly split between cracking (mostly ransomware and credit card fraud, really) and the substance-dependent anticitizenry. The worse crimes, (human trafficking, arms dealing, CSAM) are nothing you can just find like this (or would advertise in the clear net) because first, with nation-state adversaries you should keep a low profile and second, more ne'er-do-wells than you think (but less than you hope) actually have lines they won't cross and therefore don't want those around (or simply because of the associated risks).
...yeah okay this post got longer than anticipated. Oopsie-daisy.
last edited at Aug 7, 2025 2:19PM
