Hello everyone! I would like to first say that [ProxAllium](https://proxallium.org/) is in no way affiliated with the Tor Project and it is developed independently by me at the moment.
Introduction: ProxAllium is a simple GUI frontend for Tor which works in Windows, the main goal of this program is to allow the user to get Tor up and running without the need of using Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) and configuring it. ProxAllium makes the process easy by automatically generating a safe configuration for Tor without any user interaction on the first launch! It's GUI displays useful information like the port, proxy type, PID etc of Tor in a single place so that this information is very accessible. ProxAllium has a robust notification system which informs the user of any important events like errors, crashes, unexpected exits and successful connections. The information console at the bottom of the GUI shows all the errors and warnings from Tor as-is. For more detailed information the user can open the "Tor Output" window which will show the full output from Tor. All of these features make troubleshooting a little less painful. The GUI also minimizes to the tray automatically and moves out of the user's way :) On the technical side, bridges (with some select PTs) are supported out of the box, thanks to Yawning Angel's obfs4proxy. Tor is also handled properly via the control protocol as defined by control-spec.txt, so that actions like shutting down and switching circuits are done properly. Background: I started writing ProxAllium almost 2 years ago (around November 2016). My main motivation was the lack of a tool/script which can setup Tor and keep it running in the background so that I can use it with other applications like IRC clients, browsers (for circumventing censorship) etc. The userbase has always remained small, with only my close friends and some other people who have managed to find ProxAllium through limited advertising (by me) at select places like Reddit, YouTube and IRC. I have not really been able to spread awareness very far yet, though I have big plans. My marketing skills though, with what I have done, seem to have failed so far. Future: I intend to further develop ProxAllium by entirely re-writing it in C and make it cross-platform so that everyone can reap its benefits. However, my main problem is lack of motivation and feedback, it would greatly help if some of you could try it out and give me any helpful feedback or ideas that I can implement, I will try my best to accommodate everyone's requests. Sorry for the long email and congratulations for reading this far, I truly appreciate you taking the time. With Regards, Damon H. (TheDcoder) -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
