date: 2012-04-06 20:33:38+00:00
slug: database-prune
title: Database prune
-categories:
-- community
-- development
-- freenode
-- infrastructure
-- technical
+category: community
+category: development
+category: freenode
+category: infrastructure
+category: technical
---
Every couple of years, freenode likes to get out the shears and prune the services database. Recently we broke the 80,000 usercount barrier, but the services stats are way ahead: