UI: Allow hiding or collapsing of less used channels

Channel decluttering

I am heavy IRC user and I am joined in >50 channels related to open-source and the channel left sidebar no longer fits a full screen, making quite hard to spot the channels that matters from those where I am only lurking (or waiting for someone to contact me, to to mention a keyword).

I am not yet sure which is the easiest solution for addressing this issue so I will list few ideas, letting other review them, hopefully we can find a solution for scaling UI beyond ~15 channels:

• grouping channels : be able to right click on a channel and select a pick a group. A group would be listed at root level with [+] icon and should show the total number of messages it contains. Selecting the group should expand it, clicking again on it should collapse it.
• colors : ability to change the color used to display channels, this would make easier to visually group channels. Color should be selectable using right click on channel, having a preset of ~6-10 colors should be more than enough.
• auto-hide channel : ability to hide channels without any activity in them. This can go at two levels: hide if there are no messages and hide if there are no mentions.

[venatiodecorus]

I like the way IRC Cloud handles it, where you can pin your favorite channels to the top of the list. I’d love to see that feature.

[brettgilio]

It is really not the most elaborate work around, but in the mean time

#network-b181e259-a581-4245-a84a-68e679a5cdb0  div[data-name="#channel"]
 {
    display: none;
}

Edit: Actually, this may not be a half-bad solution. We could just implement a UI method of altering the CSS with pinged nick or custom highlights being a reattach trigger (remove from the CSS hidden list)??? Possibly a “hide” UI element would suffice.