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9 freenode has been growing slowly and steadily, breaking the next practically-useless-but-still-kinda-neat barrier of more than
90,
000 concurrent connections at the same time. It's very nice, and humbling, to know that we are able to enable so many people to communicate with each other.
11 I shouldn't have added a month of leeway at the last second to my
[last prediction](http://blog.freenode.net/2012/04/80k/) so the scary scary
100,
000 is officially targeted for May
2014. Yes, the pace at which freenode is growing seems to be increasing ever so slightly.
13 Historic posts for those of you keeping track:
15 [http://blog.freenode.net/2007/08/freenode-has-reached-40-000-users/](http://blog.freenode.net/2007/08/freenode-has-reached-40-000-users/)
17 [http://blog.freenode.net/2008/09/50000-active-users/](http://blog.freenode.net/2008/09/50000-active-users/ )
19 [http://blog.freenode.net/2009/12/happy-new-year-2010/](http://blog.freenode.net/2009/12/happy-new-year-2010/)
21 [http://blog.freenode.net/2011/01/freenode-70k/](http://blog.freenode.net/2011/01/freenode-70k/ )
23 [http://blog.freenode.net/2012/04/80k/](http://blog.freenode.net/2012/04/80k/)