<h2>2018.8 update</h2>
<p>Discourse was updated twice this month on 8th and 22nd to latest current version of <strong>v2.1.0.beta5</strong>.<br>
Backups were downloaded twice a week.</p>
<p>There was recent sudden increase in users with Pakistani IP addresses that posted off-topic posts copied from bitcointalk forum. These users are now deleted and their IPs blocked, but I am still not sure of the motive. There are more new users with Pakistani IP addresses being regularly created  from last few days ago, but they haven't posted anything yet. I contacted them and locked their trust level and will block their accounts if they don't respond within a short period of time.</p>
<p>There has also been a very likely scam attempt on our forum from a user seemingly providing a cash app support phone number for support about refunding or something. I didn't find that phone number on cash app's website, but I have found it on couple other places on the Internet being posted in similar manner.</p>
<p>As for stats this month:<br>
<strong>58</strong> new signups, <strong>5%</strong> increase.<br>
<strong>64</strong> new topics, <strong>78</strong> increase.<br>
<strong>274</strong> new posts, about the same as last.<br>
DAU/MAU and daily engaged users, about same as last month.<br>
<strong>27</strong> new forum contributors, a <strong>13%</strong> decrease.</p>
<p><strong>128k</strong> pageviews, <strong>65%</strong> increase.<br>
About the same number of user visits as last month.</p>
<p>In conclusion, I don't think that the valid activity on the forum increased this month (other than <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-user-id="34919942" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/HarryMacfinned">@HarryMacfinned</a>'s daily offerbook stats), but amount of spam and scam attempts have definitely increased, especially in last few days.<br>
This will require some more vigilance until these attacks hopefully decrease again.</p>

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