Freenode currently ranges between roughly 75,000 and 90,000 users—that’s a far cry from the 240,000 users fellow IRC network QuakeNet had back in 2005, but it’s still quite a lot of people. (credit: netsplit.de) Freenode has been the world’s largest IRC network since 2013, with roughly three times as many users as its closest competitor, IRCnet. […]