A snapshot of public IRC as seen by our bot, built from the latest scans of every listed network. It is updated every few hours.
Updated 0 seconds ago
Networks
41
Servers
106
Users
199,590
Channels
91,255
Users: sum of each network's average users per server.
Biggest networks
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1. Libera 31,616
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2. UnderChat 28,459
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3. HybridIRC 21,442
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4. IRCNet 17,575
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5. Undernet 16,432
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6. EfesNet 16,001
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7. FreeUniBG 9,895
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8. Rizon 9,273
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9. EFnet 8,264
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10. P2P-NET 7,262
Biggest moves in the last 30 days
Not enough history yet.
Encryption (TLS)
80.2% of listed servers accept TLS connections.
TLS versions seen
- TLSv1.3: 55
- TLSv1.2: 3
IRCv3
46.2% of listed servers announce IRCv3 capabilities.
Most common capabilities
- away-notify 90%
- multi-prefix 90%
- sasl 88%
- account-notify 88%
- extended-join 86%
- userhost-in-names 80%
- server-time 78%
- account-tag 78%
- echo-message 78%
- invite-notify 73%
- chghost 73%
- message-tags 73%
- cap-notify 71%
- batch 71%
- labeled-response 71%
IRCd software
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UnrealIRCd 28 (42%)
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InspIRCd 23 (34%)
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ircu / snircd 7 (10%)
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Other 3 (4%)
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Solanum 2 (3%)
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Bahamut 1 (1%)
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ircd-hybrid 1 (1%)
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ircd-ratbox 1 (1%)
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ngIRCd 1 (1%)
From the VERSION reply of 67 servers.
Where the servers are
Biggest channels
- 1. #sweethell (FreeUniBG) 7,596
- 2. #Teams (EfesNet) 5,009
- 3. #Radio (EfesNet) 4,978
- 4. #Sohbet (EfesNet) 4,958
- 5. #TalkIRC (EfesNet) 4,874
- 6. #Mobil (EfesNet) 4,648
- 7. #chatflex (HybridIRC) 3,703
- 8. #Cinsellik (EfesNet) 3,530
- 9. #Gay (EfesNet) 2,865
- 10. #Lezbiyen (EfesNet) 2,849
How this is measured
Every listed network is visited once per night and every server is checked for reachability every 4 hours. Servers that stop answering are hidden from the list, so these numbers describe IRC that works today.