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author: seanw
date: 2007-08-28 19:12:18+00:00
slug: freenode-has-reached-40-000-users
title: freenode has reached 40 000 users
category: community
category: freenode
category: infrastructure
category: social
category: user count
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Today at around 18:45 UTC freenode hit a total number of connections of fourty thousand, which is a new network record. Over the past few months our usercount has been steadily growing and we are really pleased that more people are finding freenode a useful resource. If you want to see how many users are connected at any one time, type the IRC command /lusers

[18:45:52] [freenode] -!- WALLOP Md:  FYI, freenode has just broken the record of 40000 connected users. let's join the party in #defocus
