Five Years After Its Formation Libera.Chat Has the Most Simultaneous Users in Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
netsplit.de also measures the cross-network total at over 300k, probably for the first time in years:
Earlier today we mentioned IRC turning 38 some time soon (August) and seeing that there are about 500 known (and sufficiently significant) IRC networks out there, let's examine the "top" ones (measured or ranked by number of simultaneous users):
| today |
yesterday
|
network | users Ø | channels Ø | servers Ø | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
1.
|
|
Libera.Chat | 30190 | 21479 | 27 |
| 2. |
2.
|
|
HybridIRC | 21591 | 483 | 22 |
| 3. |
3.
|
|
OFTC | 19966 | 4026 | 17 |
| 4. |
4.
|
|
Undernet | 15596 | 5331 | 34 |
| 5. |
5.
|
|
FreeUniBG | 14197 | 616 | 43 |
| 6. |
6.
|
|
SkyChatz | 12664 | 689 | 20 |
| 7. |
7.
|
|
hackint | 10872 | 2055 | 8 |
| 8. |
8.
|
|
Rizon | 9329 | 6542 | 18 |
| 9. |
9.
|
|
EFnet | 7940 | 5142 | 18 |
| 10. |
10.
|
|
P2P-NET | 7045 | 655 | 14 |
| 11. |
11.
|
|
QuakeNet | 5340 | 5561 | 23 |
| 12. |
12.
|
|
CyberIRC | 5134 | 41 | 6 |
| 13. |
13.
|
|
FlexChat | 5055 | 79 | 15 |
| 14. |
14.
|
|
DALnet | 5029 | 2639 | 29 |
| 15. |
15.
|
|
freenode | 4873 | 7757 | 8 |
| 16. |
16.
|
|
IRCnet | 4523 | 2543 | 8 |
| 17. |
17.
|
|
AyoChat | 4481 | 63 | 12 |
| 18. |
18.
|
|
Chatzona | 4380 | 489 | 8 |
| 19. |
19.
|
|
EfesNet | 2685 | 171 | 19 |
| 20. |
20.
|
|
PTirc | 2239 | 72 | 6 |
The numbers across networks go up, not down. Is society fed up with GAFAM "ware"? █