IRC is not dying exponentially. No data shows this. There is also a multitude of data from searchirc on hundreds of networks, large and small, and the data does not agree with exponential decay. To say that small networks die faster is not surprising-- that has always been a reality of IRC (and virtually any other system). If users from a small network migrate to a larger one, you still have the same number of users even if you have less networks.. that doesn't translate into "IRC is dying".
