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FICS never matched the popularity of ICC, but as of 2012 it had about 900 people logged in at any given time,<ref name=":7" /> and by August 2014 it had over 650,000 registered accounts.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Menn |first=Joseph |title=All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster |publisher=Crown Publishing Group |year=2003 |isbn=9781400050062}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> In 2016, 50,000 active players played a total of 23 million games.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ficsgames.org/2013_stats.html |title=FICS Games Database – Statistics for 2013 |access-date=2014-08-03 }}</ref>

In a 2024 book, Peter Doggers drew a comparison between the FICS and ICC rivalry and the later [[Lichess]] vs. [[Chess.com]] rivalry, with one side committed to free and open principles and the other offering more features for a fee.<ref name=":3" />

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