[tor-relays] Launch of new Tor Weather service

Hello everyone!

As indicated on the last relay operator meetup we were close to re-launching the Tor Weather service. Now, after fixing a bunch of last-minute issues and double-checking everything is working we can finally announce that the newly designed Tor Weather service is ready for public usage.

Feel free to try it out at https://weather.torproject.org and help improving it!

For those not knowing what this service is about: Tor Weather is offering subscriptions to keep track of the well-being of relays. Right now, after registering an account, one can get an e-mail notification in case a relay goes down or loses some flags or goes below a certain amount of observed bandwidth. The idea is to help operators in managing their relays that way and showing them their contribution to our project is much appreciated.

There a many more things we can potentially offer subscriptions for, like getting notifications for upcoming relay operator meetups, having earned a Tor t-shirt, new relay requirements, running outdated Tor versions... You can find a current list of ideas in our bug tracker[1]; feel free to add missing ones and pick up issues to work on. This is a free software project after all. :slight_smile:

We see Tor Weather as an investment into our relay operator community and think it will be useful in the future to help growing and strengthening our community, which is very exciting.

Finally, I'd like to give a big shout-out to Sarthik Gupta who did all the heavy-lifting and re-wrote Tor Weather during last years' Google Summer of Code and keeps improving it. Additionally, kez from our sysadmin team was invaluable in getting all the different pieces set up and running on our infrastructure.

Thanks as well to all the volunteers, like nusenu, who contributed with ideas and feedback over the years which convinced us that Tor Weather is a worthwhile tool to invest time and energy in again.

Georg

[1] Issues ยท The Tor Project / Network Health / Tor-Weather ยท GitLab

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I've hacked together a little script [0] for those of us with many relays that don't want to wait till issue #17 / #55 are resolved. [1]

Bauruine

[0] Import Family to tor weather python tor_weather_importer.py --family 02EC629306C61EE1D3BDD4DD978514B99E226EA0 --wait-for 1 ยท GitHub

[1] Add family subscriptions (#17) ยท Issues ยท The Tor Project / Network Health / Tor-Weather ยท GitLab Add and edit multiple relays at once (#55) ยท Issues ยท The Tor Project / Network Health / Tor-Weather ยท GitLab

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On 30.03.23 11:01, Georg Koppen wrote:

Hello everyone!

As indicated on the last relay operator meetup we were close to re-launching the Tor Weather service. Now, after fixing a bunch of last-minute issues and double-checking everything is working we can finally announce that the newly designed Tor Weather service is ready for public usage.

Feel free to try it out at https://weather.torproject.org and help improving it!

For those not knowing what this service is about: Tor Weather is offering subscriptions to keep track of the well-being of relays. Right now, after registering an account, one can get an e-mail notification in case a relay goes down or loses some flags or goes below a certain amount of observed bandwidth. The idea is to help operators in managing their relays that way and showing them their contribution to our project is much appreciated.

There a many more things we can potentially offer subscriptions for, like getting notifications for upcoming relay operator meetups, having earned a Tor t-shirt, new relay requirements, running outdated Tor versions... You can find a current list of ideas in our bug tracker[1]; feel free to add missing ones and pick up issues to work on. This is a free software project after all. :slight_smile:

We see Tor Weather as an investment into our relay operator community and think it will be useful in the future to help growing and strengthening our community, which is very exciting.

Finally, I'd like to give a big shout-out to Sarthik Gupta who did all the heavy-lifting and re-wrote Tor Weather during last years' Google Summer of Code and keeps improving it. Additionally, kez from our sysadmin team was invaluable in getting all the different pieces set up and running on our infrastructure.

Thanks as well to all the volunteers, like nusenu, who contributed with ideas and feedback over the years which convinced us that Tor Weather is a worthwhile tool to invest time and energy in again.

Georg

[1] Issues ยท The Tor Project / Network Health / Tor-Weather ยท GitLab

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Georg Koppen:

Hello everyone!

As indicated on the last relay operator meetup we were close to re-launching the Tor Weather service. Now, after fixing a bunch of last-minute issues and double-checking everything is working we can finally announce that the newly designed Tor Weather service is ready for public usage.

Feel free to try it out at https://weather.torproject.org and help improving it!

Thanks to tornth for reporting a critical issue[1] we forgot to address before launching the new Tor Weather service. I've stopped the system for now while we are working to fix it.

Sorry for that mistake and inconvenience,
Georg

[1] Remove third-party trackers (Google and Adobe) (#57) ยท Issues ยท The Tor Project / Network Health / Tor-Weather ยท GitLab

Georg Koppen:

Georg Koppen:

Hello everyone!

As indicated on the last relay operator meetup we were close to re-launching the Tor Weather service. Now, after fixing a bunch of last-minute issues and double-checking everything is working we can finally announce that the newly designed Tor Weather service is ready for public usage.

Feel free to try it out at https://weather.torproject.org and help improving it!

Thanks to tornth for reporting a critical issue[1] we forgot to address before launching the new Tor Weather service. I've stopped the system for now while we are working to fix it.

We are done with that. Thanks again to tornth for that bug report, much appreciated!

Sorry for that mistake and inconvenience,

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Georg

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Georg

[1] Remove third-party trackers (Google and Adobe) (#57) ยท Issues ยท The Tor Project / Network Health / Tor-Weather ยท GitLab

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