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Well, except IRC isn't dead... http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/top10.php?year=2012 http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/top10.php?year=2012

• patrickg 14y ago
  When I click through the years, I see its slow decay.
  • moe 14y ago
    Yes there has been some decay since 1998 (unsurprisingly), but in the past years it's been nowhere near as dramatic as it may seem at a glance - the charts are just difficult to compare due to the jumping scales and colors. Freenode, for example, keeps growing steadily since 2007, many of the smaller networks show pretty much a flatline or cross-shift in the same timeframe. As it stands the networks still serve ~500k daily users; seems a bit early to call it "dead".