[tor-project] PSA: fpcentral / forrestii retirement notice

[Antoine Beaupré]

Reminder: this is happening right now. The virtual machine was stopped,
and will be destroyed in 7 days, and its backups in 30 days.

Goodbye fpcentral! :)

On 2021-04-28 17:15:02, Matthew Finkel wrote:
> Hello!
>
> The service "fpcentral" (https://fpcentral.tbb.torproject.org/) will be
> retired on October 20th 2021 (6 months from now), along with the server
> it is running on (forrestii).
>
> We do not have the resources to maintain the service. Besides, other,
> and better alternatives have emerged since then, like, for example the
> EFF's Cover Your Tracks service (https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/,
> previously known as the Panopticlick) and TorZillaPrint
> (https://arkenfox.github.io/TZP/).
>
> On the retirement date, the server will be shutdown, rendering the
> service completely unavailable. A week later, the server will be
> destroyed, and its backups will be destroyed 30 days after the
> retirement date. The Internet Archive has an up to date copy of the
> site's static assets and will be able to keep it for posterity. It is
> recommended that you fix any bookmarks, links, or other references you
> have to this site.
>
> If you have concerns about the retirement or wish to delay the
> procedure, you can add a comment to the tracking issue
> (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40009) or contact
> TPA:
>
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/policy/tpa-rfc-2-support#how-to-get-help
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-- 
Antoine Beaupré
torproject.org system administration
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