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croc needs your help

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#1,269 opened on Aug 19, 2026

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Hi!

Again I'm here with a plea: croc needs your help to continue serving transfer publicly for free.

donate a public relay

As of today, croc has a new feature: multiple public relays (currently 4!), fulfilling longstanding issues like https://github.com/schollz/croc/issues/585, https://github.com/schollz/croc/issues/441, https://github.com/schollz/croc/issues/1040, , https://github.com/schollz/croc/issues/931.

Currently, I maintain all the public relays. Please consider running a public relay and creating a PR to add its address to the list of public relays. More relays will share the burden of paying for bandwidth to transfer over 40 TB/month.

To host your own relay: simply create a disco instance and point it to a fork of the croc repository on your GitHub, that's it! Then share the URL back via a PR to the list of public relays.

donate to help pay for bandwidth

As of today, the public croc relay has about 400,000 monthly users. If just 0.1% of those users donated just $1, the public croc relays would be sustainable for the month to continue serving the vast majority of users, for free. It is not currently sustainable. Its almost been 10 years of hosting public relay. With your support I'm hoping it will go for another 10 years (at least!). Please consider just donating, even $1 will go a long way.

Donate here.

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