[tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

Hi folks, Check out https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html (for posterity, the longer-term link will be https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users&start=2013-05-29&end=2013-08-27&country=all&events=off#direct-users ) The number of Tor clients running appears to have doubled since August 19: https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users&start=2013-08-12&end=2013-08-27&country=all&events=off#direct-users And it's not just a fluke in the metrics data -- it appears that there really are twice as many Tor clients running as before: https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#dirbytes There's a slight increase (worsening) in the performance measurements: https://metrics.torproject.org/performance.html but it's hard to say if that's a real difference. So while there are a bunch of new Tor clients running, it would seem they're not doing much. Anybody know details? It's easy to speculate (Pirate Browser publicity gone overboard? People finally reading about the NSA thing? Botnet?), but some good solid facts would sure be useful. --Roger