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 ticho on Wednesday April 02 2014, @02:43AM
If only. If only RSS could die and everyone would switch to Atom. Or, you know, other way around. JUST PICK ONE FORMAT ALREADY.