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Forum for discussing Internet censorship circumvention

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About the project

A multilingual forum built on GitHub Issues for discussing Internet censorship circumvention; developers and researchers share techniques and research, and a backup.py script archives discussions into SQLite.

Useful for

Ask about censorship circumvention techniques by opening a new issue in your language
Search the archive for discussions of specific blocking and circumvention techniques
Make a local backup of the forum via backup.py using a personal access token

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

1.5 Quiet Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 4, 2026, 23:35 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

Bars show daily stars; the line is a moving average of the available history. Short histories do not yet establish a reliable usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Why it’s trending

2 stars today.
Hacker News: “Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability” — 27 points, 5 h ago.

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Numbers

Total stars: 5,313
Today: 2
Forks: 126
Issues and pull requests: 627
Watchers: 307
Language: Python
Created: November 17, 2017
Last push: January 25, 2026

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Hacker News discussions

Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability27 points, October 4, 2026

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