Yeah I have a strong feeling a lot of those are just bouncers that are running on some old VPS, totally forgotten. I also think this would have triggered peopl

Yeah I have a strong feeling a lot of those are just bouncers that are running on some old VPS, totally forgotten. I also think this would have triggered people to think "do I actually still want to be on IRC"? Rather than just idling for years. However I didn't know it was still only half the size. That is much worse than I expected. I know some of them have moved to other networks, for example the alpine linux team went to OFTC. So part of it is explained by that. Still a split of the community but OFTC is a very similar type of community.