Maybe he rolled back to the previous version
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Alby has actually lost 37 channels in total over the last 7 days
https://1ml.com/node/030a58b8653d32b99200a2334cfe913e51dc7d155aa0116c176657a4f1722677a3/statistics
Yikes.
Can't go back with db upgrades which 0.17 has, likely upgraded to RC2 for a bug fix.