Updates
Updates on our activities and progress.
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2024 July update
Published on August 5, 2024 by Erik Nordberg
(David Fifield) The number of users of the snowflake-01 bridge remained about the same during July 2024, while used bandwidth increased. A decline in users from Iran in the first half of the month was balanced by an increase from Russia in...
2024 June update
Published on July 6, 2024 by Erik Nordberg
(David Fifield) There were no big surprises in June 2024. The number of users declined a bit, as more of the load is being taken up by the other bridge, snowflake-02. The likely cause of more users starting to use snowflake-02 is the...
2024 May update
Published on June 6, 2024 by Erik Nordberg
(David Fifield) The number of users of the snowflake-01 bridge was stable in May 2024. There were no more of the...
2024 April update - corrected
Published on May 10, 2024 by Erik Nordberg
(David Fifield) After last month's decline, users of the snowflake-01 bridge were mostly stable in April 2024. T...
2024 March update
Published on April 8, 2024 by Erik Nordberg
David Fifield On 2024-03-01, there was a change in domain fronting infrastructure that resulted in a decline of use...
2024 February update
Published on March 6, 2024 by Erik Nordberg
(David Fifield) The number of users of the snowflake-01 bridge had a steady increase throughout February 2024. Only on March 1 is there a hint of an event we will have more to say about in next month's update....
2024 January update
Published on February 4, 2024 by Erik Nordberg
(David Fifield) The number of users of the snowflake-01 bridge remained steady at about 35,000 average concurrent users. Bandwidth use increased a little bit....
2023 year in review
Published on January 24, 2024 by Erik Nordberg
(David Fifield) This is a summary of usage of the Snowflake pluggable transport in 2023. For the previous year's summary, see the...
2023 December update
Published on January 6, 2024 by Erik Nordberg
(David Fifield) Bandwidth on the snowflake-01 bridge remained steady throughout December 2023, while the average number of simultaneous users grew from 30,000 to 35,000. The glitch on 15 December was caused by a restart of the bridge, about...
2023 November update
Published on December 8, 2023 by Erik Nordberg
(David Fifield) The number of simultaneous users of the snowflake-01 bridge remained stable at about 30,000 during November 2023. This is still down from a recent high of about 50,000 in early September, before a...
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