Preserve the history
IRC channels can run for years. IRCStats keeps that activity measurable through rankings, activity periods, word counts and community records instead of exposing raw public logs.
About the project
IRC history.
IRC history.
Still alive.
IRCStats.net turns years of IRC activity into something you can actually explore — long-term statistics through PISG and recent activity through BlackBoT.
Two views of IRC
PISG handles the long-term archive while BlackBoT focuses on recent activity. Together they give both the historical picture and what is happening on the network now.
Independent project
IRCStats.net is an independent community project and is not an official Undernet service. It exists because IRC is still worth building things for.
Historical statistics
PISG keeps the long view.
PISG processes IRC logs and generates the detailed channel pages on IRCStats.net: activity by hour and day, user rankings, words, records and years of accumulated channel history.
Browse PISG channels →
archive pipeline
IRC logs
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PISG
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├── activity history
├── user rankings
├── words & records
└── channel totals
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IRCStats.net / channel
Live analytics
BlackBoT watches the pulse.
BlackBoT adds a more recent view of IRC activity. It tracks current channel activity and exposes useful short-term analytics without replacing the historical PISG archive.
Last 7 days
Recent newcomers, active users and returning users give a quick picture of channel movement.
30-day timeline
See recent activity trends instead of waiting for long-term totals to tell the whole story.
When IRC wakes up
Hourly heatmaps show when a channel is actually alive and when activity drops off.
Talkers, words & replies
Top talkers, top words, records and reply pairs reveal the social side of channel activity.
ircstats stack
Undernet IRC
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├── PISG → historical archive
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└── BlackBoT → recent analytics
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IRCStats.net
The idea
Old-school network.
Old-school network.
Modern view.
IRC does not need to pretend it is Discord, Slack or anything else. The goal of IRCStats is simpler: keep the character of IRC while giving its communities better tools to understand their own activity.
Explore IRCStats
History or live activity.