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On EFNet: 40416 44108 :Current global users 40416, max 44108 On IRCNEt: 66290 98675 :Current global users 66290, max 98675 Which is probably significantly
by dfox 16y ago
On EFNet:
40416 44108 :Current global users 40416, max 44108
On IRCNEt:
66290 98675 :Current global users 66290, max 98675
Which is probably significantly less than number of twitter users, but IRC is explicitly designed to be scalable.
- zokier 16y agoIt was also designed in the eighties to be used in university networks. The scale was a lot smaller back then.
- points 16y agoThe volume of communication is FAR higher than twitter though, and the number of engaged people is likewise higher.
- abstractbill 16y agoThose are actually very small numbers. Justin.TV's chat system, for comparison, has scaled to half a million concurrents. And I had to significantly diverge from the IRC spec to achieve that level of scale.
- rogerclark 16y agoI'm interested in exactly how you diverged. What changes did you make to the protocol (especially in terms of server-server communication) to facilitate that kind of scalability?