No clue. I wonder if there's some backlash from a anti-attack mechanism of some sort? There was a few attempted attacks against the Tor network, but it wasn't anything worth discussing. Check out the post on the 31st from blog.torproject.org.

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Sebastian Urbach <sebastian@urbach.org> wrote:

Hi,

https://metrics.torproject.org shows a big nose dive recently regarding the number of HSDir's. Did i miss anything relevant in the last days ? That seem to be the reason why i see increasing download numbers on my system.

Thanks for any lind of info.
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Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations

Sebastian Urbach

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