Talk:UnrealIRCd

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A fact from UnrealIRCd appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 5 June 2008.

[edit] Second paragraph

"According to SearchIRC's statistics, UnrealIRCd is used on the largest number of IRC servers. The largest IRC networks, however, do not use it."

What is that supposed to mean? No reason is given why and the last sentence has some grammar issues. Do not use them, perhaps? -- But still - no reason is given why. /Tense (talk) 10:36, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

The reason is because they have developed their own, specifically tailored IRC servers for their own use, however there is no reliable source which states this, so I have not included it. And, "The largest IRC networks do not use UnrealIRCd on their servers" would possibly be a better wording, but I think the current wording is fine, though. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 10:49, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, the existing text makes sense to me. Gatoclass (talk) 11:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

It's worded like that because although many many smaller and medium-sized networks use UnrealIRCd, the five largest use mainly their own IRCd or something that is different than Unreal. --cmelbye (^t/_c) 11:32, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Ah, yes. I'm sorry. I should have read it more carefully. It makes perfectly sense to me now aswell. Thank you. /Tense (talk) 14:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC)