STATUS · WeTheNorth · PROBE LOG
WeTheNorth Status
This is the honest status board for WeTheNorth, the Canadian market that answers only over Tor. It runs no live crawler. What it shows is the signed onion, the last time a person checked it by hand, and a plain reading of what that check meant.
http://hn2paw7hljeihrk7qm2toniay5bb4cfz46cav5iywnsv64klm45mypqd.onionThe address every probe on this page points at. The pill reads Checking, which is a claim to verify, not a promise the door is open. Copy it, match the signed record, then open it in Tor Browser.
What sits behind a single status word
A status line here is not a verdict on the market. It is the record of one manual probe, run over Tor at a set moment. Behind that one word sits a short chain, and any link in it can stall on its own without the market being gone.
The WeTheNorth probe journal
| Date | Target | What the check saw |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-22 | primary onion | Checking |
| 2026-08-21 | primary onion | Checking |
| 2026-08-20 | failover slot | Pending sign |
| 2026-08-18 | primary onion | Answered at check |
Honest limit: no line here is live. The signing key is not published yet (Phase 0), so nothing on this board is proven by signature today. Treat each row as a note, and re-check the address against the record on your own visit.
Down on Tor is a moment, not a death
A version-3 onion can read down for a stretch and then answer minutes later, with nobody having touched the market. A handful of plain reasons cover most of it. The service republishes its descriptor on a schedule, and there is a gap while the new one spreads. The directory nodes that hold that record rotate, so a lookup that failed can land on a fresh circuit. The Tor network itself takes waves of junk traffic that drag on every onion at once. And operators run maintenance without telling anyone.
None of those mean the door is gone for good. The words that should actually worry you look different. A login form sitting on the open web. An address that drifts by a character from the one you saved. A page swearing the old door is dead and steering you toward a new one it just happens to host.
How to read this board without fooling yourself
A colored dot is a claim, never a clearance. Even a service that answers can be a clone that answers. The one reading that holds is the full onion checked against the signed record, character for character. Do that on every visit, not once and forget it. A single address you can verify beats a screen of green lights you cannot.
When the board reads up but you cannot connect
If the checks show the onion answering yet your own Tor will not reach it, the trouble is on your side, not the market. Walk the connection checklist instead of hunting for a different link.
Status questions
Is WeTheNorth down right now?
This board cannot say to the second. It shows the last hand check and its date. If the primary onion does not open for you, give it a few minutes and a fresh Tor circuit before you treat it as gone.
Why does WeTheNorth load once and fail the next hour?
Onion availability swings with descriptor timing, directory node churn, and load on the Tor network. The same address can answer, stall, then answer again without anything changing on the market side.
Does a status page prove the site is safe?
No. A status only reports whether an address answered. Safety comes from matching the onion against the signed record, which you should do on every visit.