increased awareness of flyertalk?
 

- there are definitely lots of new members all of a sudden. i dont recall ever seeing this kind of jump, since ive been here. although with the signature rule change, you cant spot advertisers the same way...

- maybe increased/increasing lag?

- the recent attacks (not common [for FT] are they?)

alexa shows steadily increasing traffic rank, reach, page views. this is also interesting, but no idea how its calculated > http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/flyert...m#demographics