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Seeing the numbers spelled out like that really drives home how niche IRC has become. The largest network has less than 100k users on it. You can comfortably fi
by WJW 5y ago
Seeing the numbers spelled out like that really drives home how niche IRC has become. The largest network has less than 100k users on it. You can comfortably fit that many connections on a single server these days.
- TheAdamAndChe 5y agoThe internet has moved to be mobile-first, media-rich, and optionally asynchronous. IRC didn't adapt, though I'm still hopeful for matrix.org.
- nebulous1 5y agoI see discord links in a lot of places you would once have seen irc links.
- est31 5y agodiscord has 140 million MAUs. IRC as a whole has probably less than 1 million. Still not a fan of it for free software projects to use proprietary chat solutios as the official place for discussion (maybe inofficial).
- dminvs 5y agoThat's a lot of open sockets for one host
- WJW 5y agoIt is indeed a lot, but since Whatsapp manages to get 10 million connections per box [1], 100k seems doable even without insane wizardry. A few years back, I wrote an article on my blog at https://wjwh.eu/posts/2018-10-29-double-hijack.html https://wjwh.eu/posts/2018-10-29-double-hijack.html about keeping 65k connections open in a single Ruby process and that was a hackathon project written in 4 hours. https://medium.com/codingurukul/whatsapp-engineering-inside-2-bdd1ec354748 https://medium.com/codingurukul/whatsapp-engineering-inside-...