Since these services are accessible directly in the Tor Network, and do not need to pass through an exit node, it should be considerably faster to access SoylentNews via the onion links than going through directly. There are a couple of caveats you should be aware of though using this service.
When you browse us through tor, a bit of magic happens on the backend (a process I like to call auto onioning), which causes the page to be rewritten with our normal links rewritten as tor links. For instance, a link to our wiki will get automatically replaced with its onion equivalent. Unfortunately, the process is bi-directional (a side-effect of mod_substitute), so if you post a link that we have an auto-onion entry for, it will cause the onion link to show up on the main index. Auto-onioning is only applied for users coming in from tor, and not for regular visitors. We'll probably do tweaks to Slash to get it to de-onion links as they come in, but just be aware of it for now.
(Score: 1) by archshade on Tuesday April 01 2014, @07:54PM
What where did you here that RSS was dying.
I have a few RSS feeds in my browser, OK one is for the other site (maybe I should lose that on), one is here. I don't really want to check 10s of websites when I can just hover my mouse across the top of my screen. I also use it in a script to get the latest from the BBC Friday night comedy radio podcast.
Please Internet PTB don't take RSS from me
(Score: 1) by Yog-Yogguth on Tuesday April 01 2014, @08:13PM
I ragequit that /. RSS feed just now when I discovered ?nobeta=1 no longer works as it used to. No more hoops.
Buck Feta? Duck Fice! *goes to change signature line*
Buck Feta? Duck Fice! And Guck Foogle too!