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IRC still has 270k users in 2024 via https://netsplit.de/

It's not like it used to be in the 90s but that's still something.

Discord has around 200 million monthly active users. At least according to one albeit dubious source: https://backlinko.com/discord-users#discord-monthly-active-u...

Seems reasonable to go with the growing platform with 1000x more users.

How many of those are bots. 270k is basically no one. IRC is dead