date: 2011-01-31 20:56:57+00:00
slug: freenode-70k
title: freenode 70k
-categories:
-- community
-- freenode
-- user count
+category: community
+category: freenode
+category: user count
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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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We'd like to thank all of our users for using freenode. Without you we would, quite literally, not have made this milestone.
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We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our volunteers, whatever fields they have chosen to help out in.
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At the moment, we're growing at 10,000 users per year and a bit:
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[http://blog.freenode.net/2007/08/freenode-has-reached-40-000-users/](http://blog.freenode.net/2007/08/freenode-has-reached-40-000-users/)
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[http://blog.freenode.net/2008/09/50000-active-users/](http://blog.freenode.net/2008/09/50000-active-users/)
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[http://blog.freenode.net/2009/12/happy-new-year-2010/](http://blog.freenode.net/2009/12/happy-new-year-2010/)
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We're looking forward to continuing this trend and reaching 80,000 sometime around March of 2012 :)