# Snowflake Daily Operations August 2024 update

**URL:** https://forum.torproject.org/t/snowflake-daily-operations-august-2024-update/14535
**Category:** General Discussion
**Tags:** snowflake, metrics
**Created:** [September 9, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/snowflake-daily-operations-august-2024-update/14535 "2024-09-09T15:28:02Z")
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### Author: ![dcf](https://forum.torproject.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@dcf](https://forum.torproject.org/u/dcf)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/snowflake-daily-operations-august-2024-update/14535/1 "2024-09-09T15:28:02Z")

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Snowflake Daily Operations collects [donations](https://opencollective.com/censorship-circumvention/projects/snowflake-daily-operations/contribute) to fund operation of the snowflake-01 bridge. This is the [August 2024 update](https://opencollective.com/censorship-circumvention/projects/snowflake-daily-operations/updates/2024-august-update).

The number of users of the snowflake-01 bridge was about the same at the beginning and end of August 2024. On about 2024-08-20, there was a substantial decrease the undid the slow increase that had happened earlier in the month. It affected the snowflake-02 bridge as well. It is not known what may have been the cause.

 ![Daily Snowflake users](https://forum.torproject.org/uploads/default/original/2X/2/20341d43b5c47f57e6410cf7bd3d27c9e9aef831.png)

 ![Daily Snowflake bandwidth (snowflake-01 bridge only)](https://forum.torproject.org/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2c5cf9babf17acab13ecfa048977837b74938a3e.png)

It looks like all countries were affected roughly proportionally.

Another strange effect happened starting about 2024-08-13. Snowflake proxies normally report the IP address of their client to the Snowflake bridge, so that the bridge can manage country-level metrics as shown here. For unknown reasons, there started to appear at the bridge a significant number of connections without a client IP address attached. These show up in the graph as the “??” country code. The cause of this effect is also not known, but there is a discussion on the [Tor anti-censorship team mailing list](https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2024-September/000354.html).

 ![Top 5 countries with the most Snowflake users by day (snowflake-01 bridge only)](https://forum.torproject.org/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4bdff76cd2254ef08f65fecfb8da8b1dfb5828bd.png)