[metrics-team] Recent weird increases of relay users in sc, lt, ro, nl (and OTHERS)

[Laimonas Vėbra]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 09:16:26AM -0700, David Fifield wrote:

> On 2017-10-07, user estimates returned to previous levels in the
> Seychelles, Lithuania, and the Netherlands.
> 
> https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/metrics-country.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2017-10-30&country=sc
> https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/metrics-country.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2017-10-30&country=lt
> https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/metrics-country.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2017-10-30&country=nl
> 
> While Romania is doing its own thing, perhaps going back to normal for
> one day, before starting a rapid linear increase for the past three
> weeks.

Any updates? Could someone investigate and clarify this issue, cause
anomalies still persist.
Latvia, Bulgaria, Austria & Switzerland (in the past) were (or are)
affected too.

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-06-25&end=2017-11-23&country=lv&events=on
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-06-25&end=2017-11-23&country=bg&events=on
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-06-25&end=2017-11-23&country=at&events=on

Seems, like anomalies (unnaturally sudden/sharp and big rise and fall of
reported usage) in Lithuania, Romania and Netherlands coincide:

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-06-25&end=2017-11-23&country=lt&events=on
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-06-25&end=2017-11-23&country=ro&events=on
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-06-25&end=2017-11-23&country=nl&events=on