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Comment by kelsey978126 | Hacker News Reader

I'm so sorry, forgive me but has there been a release? What exactly is the news here?

It appears there has. I didn't realize mIRC was even still being developed but by the looks of it it's actually quite actively developed https://www.mirc.com/news.html

Someone has to keep the IRC lights on for when Discord inevitably runs out of money and implodes.

Discord makes $600M in ARR (2023) and they haven't even started with a real ads effort or enterprise tools yet.

> Discord makes $600M in ARR

Eventually they'll run out of ships to pillage, matey. But IRC will still be there.

> But IRC will still be there.

IRC is a wasteland. It was once vibrant, but now it's a shell of what it once was.

Tech and science group are still on. The same with Usenet, and we have misc.news.internet-discuss too.

And what does the last R in ARR stand for again?

ARR is an industry standard! It's an important metric! Our investors are only interested in that figure!

Quick, look over there!

yes, and this is a 30 year old software maintained by a solo dev. It's an incredible piece of internet history.

WinRAR is also about to turn 30 in a few days.

Did you not even click on the link before commenting?

Right on that page is -

> mIRC v7.81 has been released.

which links to https://www.mirc.com/news.html with info about the new release from April 9th 2025.

Granted it would have been better if this post linked to https://www.mirc.com/news.html

Can some change the link to https://www.mirc.com/news.html? Mods?

To be fair, the front page news section doesn't even have a date next to the 7.81 release entry. I clicked it to see if there was a date, but at first glance the page just looked like a time capsule. The title of this post doesn't even mention the release.

Fair point. The link of this post should be updated to the news page.

mIRC turns thirty this year also

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