Delist Ricochet #1135
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Resolves: #781
Ricochet's development appears to be stopped and in the linked issue I proposed replacing it with Cwtch where I understand the development to continue. However there @blacklight447-ptio said that it's not in usable state and proposed replacing it with Briar instead, which we list as worth mentioning, so I think Ricochet was forgotten.
How long is Ricochet going to stay secure if it's unmaintained? Are users going to follow the instructions to update Tor binary? Are users going to follow Tor's releases and keep the Tor binary up-to-date? I think keeping it listed is a disaster waiting to happen.
Also Tor is misspelled as TOR in our description which in my opinion looks bad and if we won't delist it, we should fix that. I don't know if the misspelling looks like a warning to stay away though, so maybe it can be positive.
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I was under the impression Ricochet was still safe if the Tor binary was updated. It also doesn’t appear to be completely dead, it looks like development is just more focused on the protocol than the actual client.
Based on the open issues and PRs it sure looks unmaintained. Hmm... some digging...
https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/issues/600#issuecomment-511488605
In addition to Cwtch it looks like some of the community has moved to https://ricochetrefresh.net/.