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Interesting to see how IRC peaked around 2005. The current most popular network, Libera, has a fraction of the users that Quakenet did 17 years ago.

I also don't need 15 bots on different IRC servers linked together to prevent someone riding a netsplit to takeover my channel.

Obviously IRC use has declined, but I also think the ratio of connections that belong to humans has increased.