X-Git-Url: https://jfr.im/git/irc/freenode/web-7.0.git/blobdiff_plain/849bdd6fcf742e61b375b8548ec648aa90622273..7b38f6bda31a444dfb42a0e7e13d7731a3023252:/content/news/2011-01-31-freenode-70k.md diff --git a/content/news/2011-01-31-freenode-70k.md b/content/news/2011-01-31-freenode-70k.md index 8d75ac951..efcb3f181 100644 --- a/content/news/2011-01-31-freenode-70k.md +++ b/content/news/2011-01-31-freenode-70k.md @@ -2,17 +2,22 @@ author: RichiH 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 --- - 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 :) + We'd like to thank all of our users for using freenode. Without you we would, quite literally, not have made this milestone. + We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our volunteers, whatever fields they have chosen to help out in. + At the moment, we're growing at 10,000 users per year and a bit: + [http://blog.freenode.net/2007/08/freenode-has-reached-40-000-users/](http://blog.freenode.net/2007/08/freenode-has-reached-40-000-users/) + [http://blog.freenode.net/2008/09/50000-active-users/](http://blog.freenode.net/2008/09/50000-active-users/) + [http://blog.freenode.net/2009/12/happy-new-year-2010/](http://blog.freenode.net/2009/12/happy-new-year-2010/) + We're looking forward to continuing this trend and reaching 80,000 sometime around March of 2012 :)