On Wed, May 4, 2016, at 10:41 AM, Paul Syverson wrote:
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 07:36:23AM +0000, Yawning Angel wrote:
On Wed, 4 May 2016 01:30:13 +0000 Alison Macrina alison@libraryfreedomproject.org wrote:
So, I want to propose that we choose onion sites or onion services once and for all (I'm in favor of the former because most users have no idea what is meant by "services"; it sounds too vague). Then, whenever we see somewhere on torproject.org or any of our documentation or whatever that still reads hidden services or onion services, that we kill it with fire.
Disagree, because this further reinforces the idea that the internet is centered around port 80/443, and is nonsensical given some of our prominent use cases ("Ricochet is based around Tor onion services" vs "Ricochet is based around Tor onion sites". One of these statements is correct, and one is not).
To further Yawning's point and provide an example of using both terms: Ricochet is an onion service in which each Ricochet client creates a local onionsite that others connect to.
Actually, for me, the user of the word "service" is something that is a machine-readable endpoint, an API or protocol, while "site" is a meant to have some human-facing aspect that is able to be browsed or read through a web browser or something of that nature.
I would say that Ricochet is only an onionservice, while something like SecureDrop or Globaleaks would be an onionsite that offers onionservices as part of the application.
+n