# The onion

The archive over Tor. The whole site, off the grid, still in the Galaxy.



There's a door into the archive that doesn't touch the open net. A v3 `.onion`, served over Tor: off the grid, still in the Galaxy. Same findings, same Log IDs, no DNS, no certificate authority, no exit node. Tor carries you to the mirror and back, end to end. It's here for the visitor who wants metadata privacy or who can't reach `www.fluncle.com` the usual way.

```
http://p53pc2uzfu2tnih4cd6wd42ok6zup2uttj6xdmjdccy5kqo33fyppkqd.onion
```

## How to reach it [#how-to-reach-it]

You need [Tor Browser](https://www.torproject.org/download/). Two ways in:

* **Open the address.** Paste the `.onion` above into Tor Browser and you're standing in the archive.
* **Click the pill.** Load `www.fluncle.com` in Tor Browser and a ".onion available" pill appears in the address bar, the `Onion-Location` advertisement. One click drops you onto the onion.

Both land in the same place. The pill is the easier door; the address is the one you can write down.

## What's behind it [#whats-behind-it]

The whole site, mirrored. Not a stripped-down lobby, but an [onionspray](https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/web/onionspray/) proxy in front of the live `www.fluncle.com`, rewriting links so everything stays on the onion as you move around. That means the surfaces ride along too:

* The [API](/docs/api-overview) at `/api/v1/*`
* The [feeds](/docs/feeds): `/rss.xml`, `/feed.json`, `/atom.xml`
* The [MCP server](/docs/mcp) at `/mcp`

Point a client at the onion host instead of `www.fluncle.com` and the same archive answers, spoken over Tor.

## What it costs [#what-it-costs]

Nothing you can see, and nothing in the firewall. An onion service reaches the network by outbound connections only (clients arrive through rendezvous points inside Tor), so the mirror opens **zero new inbound ports**. It rides the same VPS as the [rave terminal](/docs/ssh) and [dig](/docs/dig), one more door into the same room.

The archive is public and read-only, so this is a principled surface, not a load-bearing access path: it gives a visitor reach and privacy, not Fluncle's infrastructure cover. Standing it up is operator work; the full runbook lives at `docs/tor.md` in the repo.