Actually if you look at its history, you can see IRCnet (and all of the other big networks) used to be bigger - e.g: http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.ph

Actually if you look at its history, you can see IRCnet (and all of the other big networks) used to be bigger - e.g: http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php?net=IRCnet&submenu=years http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php?net=IRCnet&s... While I was there, Justin.TV's IRC network went over 500,000 concurrents a few times :)