Uptime awards considered harmful?

[alxndr42]

Cool website, but: could encouraging people to leave their relay running continously for up to two years lead to security updates (that require reboots) not getting deployed?

[intchloe]

We haven't taken any consideration to that issue because it's possible to install important security updates without needing to reboot the server (even kernel updates, if you use something like Ksplice).

Long-lasting relays are important for the Tor-network and should be treated likewise.

[wille]

Tor uptime is based on process uptime and not OS uptime from my experiences.

[alxndr42]

The majority of machines still needs to be rebooted for kernel updates. For OpenSSL fixes you have to at least restart the Tor process, which people might avoid to protect their precious uptime counter.

So I still think this award is promoting unsafe practices.