EFNet Reaches 100,000 Concurrent Connections

Mortin writes "The largest IRC network in the world, EFNet, has set another world-record max user count after breaking an astonishing 100,000 concurrent users earlier tonight!"

Comments

DALNet anyone?

[bbuda]

According to their homepage, DALnet boasts 140,000 concurrent users. I'm not sure how each of these networks are measuring their numbers, but maybe this isn't quite a world record...

Re:DALNet anyone?

[mickwd]

It's been at these volumes for a few months on DALnet. Right now there's 127,488 users, according to one of the servers.

Mind you, half of those users seem to be spambots.

Re:DALNet anyone?

[KeyserDK]

Actually QuakeNet is amazingly stable.
And that's being the fastest growing irc network in the world - they are currently the 2nd largest network.

IRCnet is bigger

[erikdalen]

According to this statistics page, not only is IRCnet bigger than EFNet, but it also has had over 100,000 users for some time now.

/Erik

Re:IRCnet is bigger

[hkmwbz]

Where does that site get its stats from? IRCnet is clearly bigger than EFnet in all the stats I've seen. Right now for IRCnet:

Current global users: 118890 Max: 119733

And EFnet:

Current global users: 98072 Max: 100239

But neither of these can claim to be the largest network anyway. Undernet? DALnet? QuakeNet?

What about Quakenet ?

[oPless]

www.quakenet.org

Currently Online: 109757
User Peak: 118855
(Sunday 15. September 2002)

Big Effin' woop.

Utter Rubbish

[RussGarrett]

EFNet ceased to be the largest IRC network months ago. DALNet is now the largest net on average, but it's had problems with DoSes recently, so currently IRCNet is in the lead with 113,000 users and 51,000 channels. QuakeNet is also regularly larger than EFNet, which usually resides at the number 3 or 4 spot. See http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/ for the latest statistics.

I wish editors would check their facts before posting random sumbissions

Re:Utter Rubbish

[fault0]

Actually, EFNet ceased to be the largest network in mid-2000. IRCnet was the first network to overtake it, but both Undernet, DALnet also eventually overtook EFnet later in 2000. IRCnet has been pretty much the largest network since then, except for this summer when DALnet jumped ahead of it. Now, DALnet has had lots of DOS problems, so IRCnet is a bit ahead again.

Recently, Quakenet has grown to the point where it is alternating between being second between itself and DALnet.

The IRC History charts at the website you mentioned are very good. I would recommend looking at these:

Top Ten IRC networks in 1999
Top Ten IRC networks in 2000
Top Ten IRC networks in 2001
Top Ten IRC networks so far in 2002

Top irc networks

[MnO-BF]

Stating that EFNet is the largest irc-network in the world may be to take the mouth a little too full. EFNet havent been number one since the summer 2000. The big four (IRCNet, Dalnet, Undernet and EFNet), were for a long time the largest networks in the world, but recently (30th of May, 2002) QuakeNet (a gaming related irc-network) broke in to the big four, and mingled with the big guys. Since then it has really been the big five, with current standing:

1. IRCNet
2. QuakeNet
3. DALnet
4. Undernet
5. EFNet

This is only regarding average users though, when it comes to channels QuakeNet takes a clear first position with over 100k channels, probably due to its special audience. As stated in previous posts, Netsplit is an excellent place to keep track of such statistics.

Gee, it's been bigger guys...

[droopus]

On the weekend of May 9-11 2002 both Spiderman and SWEP2 were released on various IRC channels. The sudden rise in channel populations was staggering: on Dal, #Newest-Movies went from a usual 450ppl to 1300; #VCDvault went from 350 to 1000; all the movie channels on Dalnet, Efnet and the XDCC chans on Criten.net were massively overfilled.

On May 10 2002 Dalnet reached a level of 139000+ concurrent users.See chart

The usual population of all major and minor IRC networks is just under a million. But on that weekend it was almost double. Seeing Efnet hit 100k isn't anything special. There are bigger networks, and events that make 100k users on Efnet seem ordinary.

I can't believe you guys put this yawner on the front page but rejected my PS2 Networked Divx player story, or even worse, my ultra-cool Enron Asset Auction story, which every geek on IRC is slobbering over.