This spike happened after we called everyone to fight against the emergent Tor censorship in Russia. Second, following the relay metrics graph, you can see that after December 7th, the bridges graph increased considerably. As a Tor friend said during a meetup, "I hate shopping for clothes" is a very valid motivation. The community was really engaged and very excited to help other Tor users. First, if you check the number of relays, you can see that in 10 days after the campaign began, we had already achieved the goal of 200 new bridges. The campaign has been such a success for a couple of reasons. But, as we saw a slight decreasing trend, we decided to act. For example, in 2019, we had only 950 running bridges. Just a quick recap: when we started the campaign on November 17, 2021, the Tor network had approximately 1,200 running bridges, which wasn't terribly bad. Here is the good news: not only did we achieve our modest goal, but we also reverted the trend of declining bridges in the network! The Tor network now has 2470 running bridges, i.e., the number of Tor bridges has almost doubled! Over the past two months, we have been helping new bridge operators to set up their bridges, updating our documentation, and testing new bridges. Since then, we have seen new bridges joining the network every day. The campaign goal was to increase the Tor network size and get 200 new obfs4 bridges. If you missed our previous blog post, the Tor Project launched a campaign to get more bridges last November. Today, we're wrapping up the "Run a Tor bridge" campaign.
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