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There's no info on how the numbers were compared, but Matrix and IRC have a different approach to counting "present" users. On IRC, a user closing the client ge
by rhn_mk1 7y ago
There's no info on how the numbers were compared, but Matrix and IRC have a different approach to counting "present" users. On IRC, a user closing the client gets subtracted from active users count, on Matrix they don't. Thay may never even come back to Matrix ever again, but they will still bloat the number of users.
In this light, the number of users in a Matrix channel hardly ever decreases and is not representative of channel's popularity.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoThis may be true, but you can also just sit in the room and compare actual activity levels. Every project I've seen that's opened up a Slack/Discord/<something like those> alternative to their IRC channel has had much more participation on the Slack/Discord. Elm's Slack is completely bustling. This is something to take seriously when the goal is to actually build a community instead of hand-wring about IRC technical superiority.