# of Whoogle instances

[boognish-rising]

Initially, I only intended to inform you that the one and only whoogle instance that farside.link recognizes is no longer valid and The domain is being sold off but it sparked another curiosity when looking at the entire list of privacy respecting front ends. I didn't actually compare how many public instances of a particular service or platform or what have you there are compared to how many instances far side recognizes and rotates etc but suffice to say that there are many instances for just about every client / front end that you can access via far side with the glaring exception of whoogle. I've noticed this for some time but it was never as bad as it is now, i.e., it's long been the case that there were fewer fewer whoogle instances that farside.link/whoogle would return, which often led to not being able to use whoogle via farside at all, but there was never only one, at least not for any prolonged. To make matters worse, that one and only instance is now history, bringing the number of whoogle instances to a nice round zero.

So I guess what I'm asking is, why the discrepancy between another one of your projects and the number of instances farside will return for it compared with nearly every other service that farside links with? I counted the other day and there are at least 15 public whoogle instances that Im fairly confident are active (they're in the official list, anyway) that specifically do not use cloudflare, since I'm aware that many are opposed to using instances that do.

I don't mean to bust balls, I'm really just asking because I'm curious but more so bc I really love whoogle and use it often, but for that very reason also would like to use farside in tandem with it. Only for whatever reason that's not an option. If there's something I'm overlooking or just wouldn't be aware of but is a critical factor, then I apologize for coming off as critical over this because the fact of the matter is is that it's your project to do with what you wish. I just happen to really like these these things you've made and I want to use them lol.

Regardless of the reasons or whether anything is done to address the above, thank you for everything and keep up the excellent work!

[EmberHeartshine]

This is still an issue, since the only one currently listed (whoogle.yepserver.xyz) is also no longer active.