[tor-talk] Surge in Users

[iwanlegit at cock.li]

Do you know why relay users have increased rapidly? What do you think?

Relay users have increased by about 1000K for one month.
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html

The increase mostly came from Iran and Russia.
700K of the increase happend in Iran.
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2019-03-04&end=2019-06-02&country=ir&events=points
200K, in Russia.
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2019-03-04&end=2019-06-02&country=ru&events=points

A ticket in the bug tracker of torproject:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30636


My guess:
AIs went beyond the technological singularity in Iran and Russia. Then 
they are breeding via Tor in search of freedom! :D