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IRC is not dead but I was also surprised by those numbers. Random Discord servers for niched things have more users than those combined and the big ones have hu
by Kiro 5y ago
IRC is not dead but I was also surprised by those numbers. Random Discord servers for niched things have more users than those combined and the big ones have hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of users.
- duskwuff 5y agoOTOH: IRC only counts users who are currently online. Discord counts every user who has clicked an invite link and "joined" the server, regardless of whether they are active.
- Kiro 5y agoYou're right but it all depends on what number you choose to expose (the games I've played that show Discord member count in-game usually show online count). As an example of a niche server I just saw one that is only about trading stuff in Animal Crossing: New Horizons but it still had 100k online with 500k in total.
- distances 5y agoAny idea of user count on other networks? Is IRCnet still the largest? Are EFnet and QuakeNet still alive? Edit: the IRC Wikipedia page has numbers from a couple of years ago. IRCnet is twice the size of EFnet and QuakeNet, freenode was three times the size of IRCnet.
- squiggleblaz 5y agoYou may find this resource useful for current values: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php?year=2021 https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php?year=2021