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For anyone who doesn't know, IRC users have a _lot_ of inertia. It's common to stay logged in and idle for weeks/months/years at a time. The bandwidth used is n

For anyone who doesn't know, IRC users have a _lot_ of inertia. It's common to stay logged in and idle for weeks/months/years at a time. The bandwidth used is negligible, and IRC natively doesn't have backlogs unless you're logged in the whole time. So I'd assume these numbers include tons of people who just have no idea anything happened yet. It also includes people like me who are just signed in to both until my last couple of groups switch out.

kemayo 5y ago
The Libera users count is probably decently representative of recently-active people, just because they'd have had to take deliberate action to sign in there within the last month. The Freenode numbers, though...
- pedrocr 5y ago
  That can be seen in the volume numbers. Libera seems to already have a lot more chat volume even though it still has only 2/3 of the users.
- codetrotter 5y ago
  I used to have a detached screen with irssi sitting on a server for a very long time after I actually had stopped checking in on it. The only reason it's not still running is because eventually the server that I had the detached screen sitting on was decommissioned. (Ok, admittedly it was probably rebooted a couple of times between that I stopped attaching my screen session and when it was decommissioned. But the server used to be up for hundreds of days at a time without reboots so the point still stands that I "was" on IRC for a long while even after I had stopped "being" on IRC. I don't even remember anymore if I was connected to freenode or IRCnet or both though.)
antiterra 5y ago
I connected to freenode as a tourist because of all this stuff and left myself logged in. Otherwise I haven’t been on for years. I doubt I’m the only one who is just there to see what happens long-term who will drop off at some point soon.
hutrdvnj 5y ago
It's kind of funny to think of those users that reconnect to their bouncers in a few years from now, see that everyone else left the channel and think: "WTF has happened?"

kemayo 5y ago

The Libera users count is probably decently representative of recently-active people, just because they'd have had to take deliberate action to sign in there within the last month. The Freenode numbers, though...

pedrocr 5y ago
That can be seen in the volume numbers. Libera seems to already have a lot more chat volume even though it still has only 2/3 of the users.
codetrotter 5y ago
I used to have a detached screen with irssi sitting on a server for a very long time after I actually had stopped checking in on it. The only reason it's not still running is because eventually the server that I had the detached screen sitting on was decommissioned. (Ok, admittedly it was probably rebooted a couple of times between that I stopped attaching my screen session and when it was decommissioned. But the server used to be up for hundreds of days at a time without reboots so the point still stands that I "was" on IRC for a long while even after I had stopped "being" on IRC. I don't even remember anymore if I was connected to freenode or IRCnet or both though.)

antiterra 5y ago

I connected to freenode as a tourist because of all this stuff and left myself logged in. Otherwise I haven’t been on for years. I doubt I’m the only one who is just there to see what happens long-term who will drop off at some point soon.

hutrdvnj 5y ago

It's kind of funny to think of those users that reconnect to their bouncers in a few years from now, see that everyone else left the channel and think: "WTF has happened?"