Questions

The questions that bring people here, answered without hedging.

A note on these answers

Several of them are unsatisfying, and that is deliberate. The honest answer to what is the current address is one that expires, and the honest answer to whether a platform will still exist next year is that nobody knows. Answers that sound more confident than that are not better informed, they are just more comfortable.

Common questions

Is this Nexus link real?

No page can tell you, including this one. Where a link came from establishes nothing about key ownership, so the only thing that settles it is a signature check on arrival, and it takes under a minute.

Why is there no single permanent address?

Because a permanent address would be worse. It is a stable target that can be flooded indefinitely, it gets built into phishing kits that never need updating, and it teaches people to stop checking. What stays stable is the method rather than the string.

Which source should I trust?

None of the nine on this site establishes anything on its own. That sounds unhelpful and it simplifies things, because it means you run the same check regardless of where you came from instead of maintaining nine different judgements.

Nothing loads. Is the market gone?

Almost certainly not. Build a new circuit, try another address, then check whether unrelated onion services work. That last question separates a market problem from a Tor problem in about fifteen seconds. The shape that justifies concern is days of silence, not hours.

Someone posted a new address during the outage. Should I use it?

No. That is exactly when fakes are seeded, because the usual comparison is unavailable and people are anxious. See the outage window. Whatever is down will come back.

My old address stopped working and now it works again. Is it back?

No, and this is the most important answer here. An address dropped from the roster that later serves a login page is being run by somebody else. Nothing that was retired returns under the same string. Close the tab.

Do I really have to verify every single time?

Yes, and the people who get caught are rarely the ones who never learned this. They are the ones who did it for a year, got comfortable, and stopped. The check does not get less necessary as you get more experienced, it gets easier to skip.

Can I just use a gateway to avoid installing Tor?

No. A gateway makes the request on your behalf, which means it reads everything you send including credentials. That is how the mechanism works rather than a matter of trusting the operator.

Three directories list the same address. Is that confirmation?

Weak evidence at best, and usually not evidence at all, because directories in this space copy each other heavily. Three sites carrying one address are frequently one source wearing three hats. Agreement propagates the same way errors do.

Is this site trustworthy?

By its own argument you should not take that on faith. The addresses here prove nothing more than addresses anywhere else, which is why every page says to check them. A site telling you to verify what it publishes is making a smaller claim than one telling you it already did.