Nexus market mirrors, as published on this site
nexusb2l7fmqnefwphyy7m5zjhlkytlbo7qbb5lu5dlczr3azgii2gyd.onionnexusma2iqgauqqvjcgds4ckv5xbf272tkfagq4epojjhsgleqpwxiqd.onionnexusabcd6tyfhdwilyitaqiri6tisj2v2hueyjuj6qkvd6azvi5tuqd.onionPublished as supplied. This site does not probe an onion, so nothing here is a claim that a given address opens for you right now.
A forum post carrying a nexus market address puts three quiet parties between the string and the address bar: the poster, the moderator, and any edit made to the post since publication.
What it is
A forum post carrying a nexus market address is a string somewhere in the body of a public thread, either in the opening post or in a reply below it. A reader opens the thread, scrolls to the post that has the string, and either copies the run or types it out into the tor browser. Three parties sit between the reader and the address bar: the account that posted the string, the moderator team of the forum, and any edit made to the post since it first went up.
The path treats the poster and the moderator as a pair, because from the reader's side they cannot always be told apart. A moderator who edits a post to update a mirror looks the same as a poster who does so themselves, and neither of them signs the edit unless the forum forces them to.
What can change under a post
- The post body
- A forum where the author can edit their own post after publication can silently swap the string in the middle of the post at any time. Many forums keep an edit history, and many hide it from casual readers.
- The op ownership
- On some forums an account can be handed to a different person, or reused after a break. The row of posts under that name might not all have been written by the same hand.
- The mirror announcement chain
- Threads used to publish mirror updates run for months. The latest string is at the end of the thread, and older strings further up can still look like current ones to a reader who scrolls into the middle.
- Moderation notes
- A mod can put a note above a post that changes the meaning of the string under it. Notes above the fold get read. Notes tucked inside a spoiler are almost never read.
How a reader gets to the wrong post
- A search result links to a post in the middle of a long thread. The middle of the thread is where old mirror addresses live and where the reader is most likely to land first.
- A quote in a later post preserves an older version of the string that the original poster has since edited. The quote carries no update warning.
- A cross post on another forum copies the row from an older version of the source thread and does not track the update.
- A reply that says use this instead wins because it looks helpful, without any check that the account writing it is the same one that opened the thread.
Lifeline
- Posted into a thread
- Being read out of the post body
- Edited under the reader without notice
What the path keeps, what it drops
The path keeps the run of letters that was in the post at the moment the reader read it. It does not keep the version history of the post, the moderation notes, the account history of the poster, or the position of the post inside the thread. All of those together are what make a post more or less trustworthy, and none of them survive into the paste. The reader has to hold that context in their head while they read.
The path also drops the freshness of a moving thread. A mirror announcement thread on a busy forum can update several times in a month. A reader who visits the thread on one day sees one string. The same reader visiting the same thread later can see a different string in the same slot, with no indication that anything has changed unless they were looking for the change.
What to check before pasting from a post
- The post is the latest one in the thread that carries a mirror address, not one from six pages back that a search result happened to link to.
- The account that posted the string is the account that opened the thread, and the thread was opened by someone the forum treats as the operator or a delegate.
- The edit history on the post, if the forum exposes one, has not moved recently in a way that changed the run of letters. Movement itself is not a problem, silent movement is.
- The row on the address bar reads the same after paste as the run on the post. Some forums wrap onion strings in html anchors that link to a different href than the visible text.