# net4people/bbs

> 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.

- Magnitude: 1.8 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 5,314 total · +0 stars today, ≈ 3 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: Python · Created: 2017-11-17 · Last push: 2026-01-25
- GitHub: https://github.com/net4people/bbs · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/net4people/bbs

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 0 stars so far today, about 3 expected by the end of the day.
- Hacker News: “Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability” — 35 points, 6 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 126
- Issues and pull requests: 627
- Watchers: 307
- Average over the last week: 2 per day
- Usual pace: 1 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-06 … 2026-10-05: 0, 2, 1, 2, 4, 4, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 0, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 0, 4, 1, 4, 1, 1, 3, 0

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

10-04 1.5, 10-05 1.8

## Hacker News

- Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability — 35 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956003

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-05 00:17 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.