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 54 minutes 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.