[metrics-team] Drop in users

[David Goulet]

On 27 Dec (15:41:01), Karsten Loesing wrote:
> On 27/12/16 12:09, David Goulet wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> > 
> > Just noticed this, a massive drop in users (link below is the
> > .onion for Metrics):
> > 
> > http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/userstats-relay-country.html
> > 
> > I've looked at few countries like Russia and US that we have lots
> > of users and they all have the same drop. Even a place like Canada
> > has that.
> > 
> > I'm wondering if this is actually a Metrics glitch or else a big
> > ass botnet has been taken down? Or we are seeing quite the
> > censorship event accross the world... ?
> > 
> > We should really figure this out soon.
> 
> If you play with the dates, you'll notice that the sudden drop comes
> from a single date: December 25, 2016.  Looking at the .csv file, the
> next day the number will be back at 1.5M again, but that day is not
> displayed yet.  This looks worse than it really is.

It seems there is some sort of pattern that can be seen here and look
like it's still going on...

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html

David

> 
> All the best,
> Karsten
> 
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