This is interesting (sort of). LAst night I finally deleted ever file on my old Threads install and teh old database, but only left the redirect scripts. Tonight, when I look at the Google crawls graph, it looks like a slight up-tic. Could be coincidence. Tonight I replaced the re-director index file with a "normal" index similar to the one used on this site so it will be interesting to see what google does in the coming days. Here is tonights graph. If youcompare to the previos graph you can see slight improvement:
