[tor-dev] Temporary decrease in FTE users in late August?

[David Fifield]

Kevin,

Do you know the reason why FTE usage dropped from 200 to about 50 at the
end of August and then recovered again?

https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=userstats-bridge-transport&start=2014-07-01&end=2014-09-16&transport=fte#userstats-bridge-transport

I had a guess that maybe it had to do with availability of new bridges.
If a bunch of bridges got blocked and then new bridges were made
available, that could explain it. The 4.0-alpha-2 release was on
September 3, but as far as I know it didn't contain new FTE bridges.
They could have been added to BridgeDB, I suppose.

David Fifield