@Patrick should we put a warning on the OnionCat page about it’s eventual deprecation. Its been reported that upstream development is dead and mail lists have disappeared. With the next gen Onion service it will no longer work.
I don’t know if I should start moving any instructions that relied on it to the old wiki stuff. What do you think?
According to my experience with the (rather temperamental) translation plugin, you should be able to remove the URL without causing any problems in regards to the translated versions. That what’s meant with:
This page contains changes which are not marked for translation.
The translations always have a seperate version which needs to be manually verified and addepted. So, you should (hopefully) not be able to cause any problems when removing the link. I will then look over the translations and adjust them if necessary.
@Patrick Should I keep TorChat instructions around? Do they work in Whonix?
Last time I checked, they worked. If they did not, we would probably
hear about it in the forums. Since there was no TorChat upgrade
recently, I wouldn’t know why they should break.
Seems Torchat is abandonware. Even the Torchat2 fork by prof7bit is dead - no commits since 2014. It was audited and has many major security problems that will never see a fix. Since I am removing outdated/insecure software sections I think this should be deprecated too.
Good catch! Please move it to deprecated. Very much justified then. But
please keep the TorChat headline so old links to not break. What should
be briefly explained there is why it’s recommended against now.
it’s been popular for a long time, it’s been recommended for a long time, so if anyone looks for that application that does not know the latest news about any deprecation and/or insecurity, we should have a handy reference that users can find or that we throw at them, that briefly explains why it is no longer recommended
Done for both TorChat and pidgin. Some translated pages still refer to them but otherwise everything updated/removed. Kept the Chat page sections but added warnings.