>>376413
Nah I'm lurkin. Enjoying a short but very lazy vacation right now. So normally when you go to an onion site via Tor browser you have five hops for maximum privacy. Entry Node - Hop - Hop - Hop - Guard Node and then Website. Tor used to be way worse because a few years back it used seven hops (Entry - Hopx5 - Exit) which is why Tor used to be so much slower back then.
Well one trick I learned on the very first version of Redchannit was that you can hack the Tor daemon's control port and change special settings in there, and one of those settings is the number of hops that connections should look for. Since the number of hops is what sends your connection spiraling around the whole planet its a major source of lag. Its possible to set the hop number as low as 1 but this is considered insecure and most Tor nodes will actually block you if its that low. Two is still considered to be good security and hides the endpoint server well, and it reduces the total number of hops from 5 to 4, meaning one less "round-the-world" journey and so less lag.
The Redchannit system is meant to protect
8chan's server and not regular users (I mean you connect to it from the clearnet, duh) so two hops works just fine and makes the whole thing a lot faster. 20% less hops is 20% less lag, 20% less chance of packet loss, 20% less chance of network disruption, etc.