irc client with advanced channel search?
reddit / irc

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[deleted] · 2016-03-17 13:43

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MuffinMedic · 2016-03-17 15:46

[HexChat](https://hexchat.github.io) is the go-to client for Windows.

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svn · 2016-03-17 18:07

"advanced channel search"

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[deleted] · 2016-03-18 02:43

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erraticerror · 2016-03-18 05:28

what?

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svn · 2016-03-18 10:33

What in hell does "advanced channel search" mean

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farded · 2016-03-18 12:29

It almost always means being able to search for multiple values as
opposed to just the name. For instance, searching for a range of
channel population (30 to 80 users),  or differentiating between
searching channel names vs channel descriptions.

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svn · 2016-03-18 12:38

some irc servers such as ircu let you search using diff criteria.

    Usage: /QUOTE LIST parameters
    Where parameters is a space or comma seperated list of one or more
of:
     <max_users    ; Show all channels with less than max_users.
     >min_users    ; Show all channels with more than min_users.
     C<max_minutes ; Channels that exist less than max_minutes.
     C>min_minutes ; Channels that exist more than min_minutes.
     T<max_minutes ; Channels with a topic last set less than
max_minutes ago.
     T>min_minutes ; Channels with a topic last set more than
min_minutes ago.
     pattern       ; Channels with names matching pattern.
     !pattern      ; Channels with names not matching pattern.
    Note: Patterns may contain * and ?. You may only give one pattern
match constraint.
    Example: LIST <3,>1,C<10,T>0,#a*  ; 2 users, younger than 10 min.,
topic set., starts with #a

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erraticerror · 2016-03-18 13:55

it could mean many things, by either searching the irc title or
description or even sorting by the most active room or such

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mabaeyens · 2016-03-18 15:59

Note that also different networks can have different approaches. For
one, freenode has its own channel indexing service you can query apart
from the server side list giving you more options even if the client
is limited in this regard.
Textual works good for OS X, but list command is not advanced i.e.:
does not allow regex

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svn · 2016-03-18 16:10

list command should just send a LIST command to the server and nothing
else. If the gui lets you filter stuff, well that's a nice addendum.

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DTSCode · 2016-04-19 12:18

If they have the atheme services package then alis is a thing.
advanced listing service

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DTSCode · 2016-04-19 12:19

[Its almost like its a real
thing](https://www.stack.nl/~jilles/irc/atheme-help/ALIS.html)

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svn · 2016-04-19 13:14

It is, just wondering what he meant. ircu has something even better