content/news/2007-08-28-freenode-has-reached-40-000-users.md

   1 author: Xyrael
   2 date: 2007-08-28 19:12:18+00:00
   3 slug: freenode-has-reached-40-000-users
   4 title: freenode has reached 40 000 users
   5 categories:
   6 - community
   7 - freenode
   8 - infrastructure
   9 - social
  10 - user count
  11 ---
  12
  13 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
  14 [18:45:52] [freenode] -!- WALLOP Md:  FYI, freenode has just broken the record of 40000 connected users. let's join the party in #defocus