Potentially misleading illustrations suggest that Tor doesn't stick to a single guard node in the overview page

https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en

The entry node in the third image is different from the one in the second image

changed milestone to %website redesign

added bridge component::webpages/website milestone::website redesign owner::ggus parent::25218 priority::medium resolution::not a bug severity::normal status::closed type::defect labels

Trac:
Milestone: N/A to website redesign

do think it's easy to fix this? https://www.torproject.org/images/htw3.svg

Trac:
Keywords: N/A deleted, bridge added
Status: new to assigned
Owner: N/A to ggus

But Tor doesn't stick to a single guard node right now, and we have a proposal to make it use two guards in a balanced way: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/291-two-guard-nodes.txt

thanks for the link, we should prepare an image for it as well then. currently the entry is stable for up to three months according to https://support.torproject.org/tbb/tbb-2/ the text should explain the current system (with above link) and the upcoming change to prepare users.

Replying to traumschule:

thanks for the link, we should prepare an image for it as well then. currently the entry is stable for up to three months according to https://support.torproject.org/tbb/tbb-2/ the text should explain the current system (with above link) and the upcoming change to prepare users.

There is no upcoming user-visible change.

Tor uses 2 guards for circuits now. It will use 2 guards for circuits in future, but in a more balanced way.

I see, does this mean the current images in the overview are correct and the FAQ answer should be updated, because the first address cannot be always the same, or can we just close this?

I don't know which FAQ your are talking about, please post a link to the answer.

If you're talking about this FAQ: https://support.torproject.org/tbb/tbb-2/

Then I think it's fine for now. Trying to explain that the guard is almost always the same is hard.

When we implement proposal 291, we can change the answer to say "two guards".

Trac:
Status: assigned to closed
Resolution: N/A to not a bug

yes, meant this one. Thanks! (Setting parent to keep this as a reference when working on the bridges page later)

Trac:
Parent: N/A to #25218 (moved)

closed

moved to tpo/web/trac#24024 (closed)