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Wow that is quite the list of channels leaving. Made me wonder what the user impact was. Thankfully netsplit.de is still around.

Graph comparing the top networks. You can clearly see the drop here: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php

Freenode stats: https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=freenode

Libera.Chat stats: https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=Libera.Chat

OFTC stats: https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=OFTC

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This site was recently created and monitors the user and channel count for Freenode, OFTC, and Libera.

https://isfreenodedeadyet.com/

It seems that Libera Chat is currently the second largest IRC network by user count.

Don't take Netsplit's top 10 into a real "top 10", some networks are excluded from it (including freenode). However, Libera is higher than IRCNet in user count now (the top 10 isn't refreshed regularly). So technically it _is_ first in this top, and ultimately, number 2 behind freenode.

> some networks are excluded from it (including freenode).

Uh... no it's not? The graphs at https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php explicitly mention Freenode.

Uh my bad. It's on the top 100 (which is a list and not graph), and I was sure you talked about that top.

OK, I see now. It's somewhat confusing that they have their statistics grouped like that.

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