[tor-talk] Metrics shows drop of users

[ncl at cock.li]

tor-admin at torland.me:
> Metrics portal shows a drop of around half million direct connecting users:
> 
> https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html
> 
> Does someone has a good explanation what happened? The top 5 countries show 
> the same drop. Is this another botnet that got knocked out?

Given that there's a gap from 29-31, this may be an error with metrics.
There have been other miscounts in the past couple months[1][2]

[1]
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2015-November/000003.html
[2]
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2015-November/000010.html