Comment by brnt
19 hours ago
Don't tie anything to a domain name you mean. Advice that's just as valid for clearnet.
v2 onions being deprecated was announced long in advance so many sites managed their transfer by announced the new URL well in advance. I don't think anyone was really bothered.
Oh, and all the links got re-written to the new URLs then? Between every site? No, they didn't. If every link breaking, every write-up about sites, every single reference across the entire .onion web breaking doesn't seem like a problem to you I'm not sure what to say.
Yeah, some sites told their users about their new v3 domain. But the web was entirely destroyed.
While unfortunate, I see no difference with the clearnet.
One might even see it as positive, because it forces maintenance. Anyone still linking to v2 addresses clearly is letting things rot. Nobody should ever assume that content available under a certain URL will be there forever, after all, even if the domain stays valid and existant.