🆚 IRC vs. Max
- 📈 Max is much more popular than IRC.
- 🌍 Max is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Belize.
- 🌎 IRC is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
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About
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging supported by many clients such as mIRC, XChat, ChatZilla and others.
Max is a Russian instant messaging platform integrated into the country's national digital ecosystem.
The platform supports text and voice messaging, group chats, file sharing, and integration with government services through the Gosuslugi portal, and is being developed as a domestic replacement for foreign messaging apps such as 
Telegram and 
WhatsApp.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Russia in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,624 websites.
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