[PSA] Positive Message from Agora

My apologies if this was already posted here, though I think it was lost in the chaos of the subreddit drama. Two days ago the Agora admins posted this message on the forum, having fixed all payment issues. And noting "security above all else", etc. It's rare that they talk this much when nothing negative is happening. 😊

http://i.imgur.com/7cFwcxx.jpg


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24 April 2015
We have now managed to get the website fully operational and worked through the list of delayed payments.

We do realize that us not giving exact time frame or information during outages like this is very unfortunate, because it looks exactly the same way as it did for certain past markets when they have been running away with users' funds and tried to stall them for enought time to cover their tracks. But there seems to be no other way to do this, because we do not want to reveal any specific information about the technical details of the problems, and many of those problems require an unclear amount of time to resolve. Unfortunately to this date these are the realities of running a Tor website securely.

We shall continue to put our and your security above evertyhing else, even above such availability problems. It has been the mode in which Agora operated from the start and we think that users that choose us rely on this exact thing, so we are not going to change this priority any time soon.

Thank you for your support during these difficult times.
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Comments


[18 Points] MLP_is_my_OPSEC:

Good stuff. It's weird to me that people are still surprised when stuff like this happens with Agora, it's been their modus operandi since creation.


[5 Points] earthmoonsun:

it looks like that as long as DNMs are illegal, there will be two types:
- safe, honest, and not 100% user friendly
- risky, shady, always on + fast


[5 Points] None:

Fucking Agora....there just nice people I tell you.


[5 Points] lamarrotems:

At least they have a clear consistant policy that seems to be working just fine:

OpSec is priority over everything else including (vendor and market money making) and user convenience.

I could only seeing people getting upset if they were to change this policy without warning or notice - and that includes exit scamming.


[3 Points] swagmaster4204204200:

dude nice


[1 Points] thechildish:

She's back. Time to make some new orders :)


[1 Points] newagora:

this is all intentional to build trust between the users and market. Everytime agora comes thru from downtime or a possibility of running they build more confidence in the users. This is exactly what i would do if i wanted to pull the biggest exit scam ever...


[0 Points] SecondChanceUsername:

Agora, will you promise us, that if/when you guys decide to close shop and take your booty off to your private tropical island, that you won't exitscam and lead us on? Giving the community assurance is likely to help people relax when you DO have legit downtime for infrastructure repair. Everyone won't assume you're trying to stall until all withdrawals are final and all wallets are emptied; like you said in your msg.


[-5 Points] alexander_bachington:

It looked like an exit scam, but it is not. So good news. Good job Agora. If you do exit scam one day, I will miss you more for your hard scientific work, than I will miss my coins.