IRC isn't going anywhere for the people that care. At the peak of IRC in 2005, the fastest single threaded CPU was the 3.8Ghz Pentium 4. We did it when there was way more people on IRC clogging up the system back when it was expensive to setup an IRC server. One Epyc 7763 is 280 times fast as the fastest Pentium 4 and even if you could get 4 P4 Xeons per 1U rack back in 2005, all 42U would only have 168 CPUs of which IRC servers that could have 64 people chatting at once ran on a 386.
Processing power is cheap, if you care about IRC, it's not going away.
Processing power is cheap, if you care about IRC, it's not going away.
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