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eyedeekay wrote: ↑20 Mar 2023 14:31 These update URLs haven't been changed because we migrated to Bittorrent-based updates for everything that's not a platform-specific package(Debian, Android) many, many years ago, where a package manager is used. It's more likely that we would add bittorrent-based updating to those packages than it is that we would switch back to HTTP updates. As such, they are all but totally unused, and we only keep the option around as an emergency backup in the incredibly unlikely event that bittorrent-over-I2P becomes a less-reliable way to update than HTTP-over-I2P, and sometimes for dev builds. Since both these cases require changing out those defaults anyway, we left the defaults the same, now inert URLs. However, since stats.i2p worked as an HTTP mirror until stats went down, I do intend to replace that one this cycle.