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What happened to all the users? I used to always see around 1.2 million users down in the bottom bar. Now, and for quite a while, it rarely shows more than a half or a third of a million users online. Are there actually that many fewer users on the distributed database, or is it a connection issue somehow?
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The number of users is calculated from the density of nodes in the DHT and then modified based on the perceived 'reachability' of your client - usually this gives a reasonably accurate and consistent number but sometimes it can get a bit whacky.
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VPNs can definitely mess with the numbers, I've seen the same thing myself when testing