content/news/2008-09-15-50000-active-users.md

   1 author: njan
   2 date: 2008-09-15 18:49:43+00:00
   3 slug: 50000-active-users
   4 title: 50,000 Active Users
   5 categories:
   6 - community
   7 - freenode
   8 - infrastructure
   9 - technical
  10 - user count
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  13 Howdy, folks! At 19:40 UTC+1 today, freenode reached 50,000 active users online, which is a record for us!
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  18 Freenode reached 40,000 users [a little over a year ago](http://blog.freenode.net/?cat=11), so we're really going from strength to strength! Thanks to all of you who've helped us build our community over the last year, and we'd like to invite you to #defocus to help us celebrate. :)
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