While we're in a period of reflection, pondering the history of haskell,
I've prepared some graphs of activity on the IRC channel.

Summary: its growing much as the mailing lists are, with more than 5000
users over the past 5 years.

Full details here,
    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/irc/

Another interesting note is that lambdabot's get more and more verbose
over time, as it provides further features. It's turning into an ide of
sorts.

-- Don