About the project

Built for IRC.
Because history matters.

IRCStats.net is a volunteer project started in 2019 to turn channel logs into useful, readable statistics while keeping the raw conversation out of the public interface.

01

Why IRCStats exists

IRC communities generate years of activity, but raw logs are difficult to understand at a glance. IRCStats gives that history structure: active periods, top participants and long-term patterns.

02

How it works

Channel logs are processed by PISG, the Perl IRC Statistics Generator. PISG creates the detailed statistics pages while this PHP website provides the public directory and project interface around them.

03

Independent & voluntary

This is not an official Undernet service. It is maintained independently in spare time for IRC communities that want a statistical view of their activity.

The engine

PISG does the heavy lifting.

PISG analyzes IRC log formats and produces detailed HTML statistics, including activity distributions, user rankings, word counts and community records.

Visit PISG project ↗
pipeline
IRC logs
   │
   ▼
PISG parser
   │
   ├── activity
   ├── users
   ├── words
   └── records
   │
   ▼
IRCStats.net
Browse the data

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