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author: RichiH
date: 2011-01-31 20:56:57+00:00
slug: freenode-70k
title: freenode 70k
category: community
category: freenode
category: user count
---
With apologies to cringing table-top players, we are more than happy to announce that we passed the threshold of 70,000 active users a few minutes ago. Lingering at a maximum of 69,991 lately, we have been anticipating this day for some time, now. And it has come :)

We'd like to thank all of our users for using freenode. Without you we would, quite literally, not have made this milestone.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our volunteers, whatever fields they have chosen to help out in.

At the moment, we're growing at 10,000 users per year and a bit:

[http://blog.freenode.net/2007/08/freenode-has-reached-40-000-users/](http://blog.freenode.net/2007/08/freenode-has-reached-40-000-users/)

[http://blog.freenode.net/2008/09/50000-active-users/](http://blog.freenode.net/2008/09/50000-active-users/)

[http://blog.freenode.net/2009/12/happy-new-year-2010/](http://blog.freenode.net/2009/12/happy-new-year-2010/)

We're looking forward to continuing this trend and reaching 80,000 sometime around March of 2012 :)
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	2	date: 2011-01-31 20:56:57+00:00
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	4	title: freenode 70k
c5191f36 EK	5	category: community
	6	category: freenode
	7	category: user count
849bdd6f	8	---
849bdd6f	9	With apologies to cringing table-top players, we are more than happy to announce that we passed the threshold of 70,000 active users a few minutes ago. Lingering at a maximum of 69,991 lately, we have been anticipating this day for some time, now. And it has come :)
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849bdd6f	11	We'd like to thank all of our users for using freenode. Without you we would, quite literally, not have made this milestone.
34876803	12
849bdd6f	13	We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our volunteers, whatever fields they have chosen to help out in.
34876803	14
849bdd6f	15	At the moment, we're growing at 10,000 users per year and a bit:
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849bdd6f	17	[http://blog.freenode.net/2007/08/freenode-has-reached-40-000-users/](http://blog.freenode.net/2007/08/freenode-has-reached-40-000-users/)
34876803	18
849bdd6f	19	[http://blog.freenode.net/2008/09/50000-active-users/](http://blog.freenode.net/2008/09/50000-active-users/)
34876803	20
849bdd6f	21	[http://blog.freenode.net/2009/12/happy-new-year-2010/](http://blog.freenode.net/2009/12/happy-new-year-2010/)
34876803	22
849bdd6f	23	We're looking forward to continuing this trend and reaching 80,000 sometime around March of 2012 :)