Forums Bug Reports /list not showing all channels that should appear

/list is stripping out some channels that should be seen according to /debug. Channels which start with a non-alphanumeric character (or also the null channel, "#"), and channels with 10000 users or more, increase the total count but aren't displayed. Private channels, supposed to be displayed as "*", are completely ignored.

...channels which start with a non-alphanumeric character

Right click in the list window, select 'List Options' and uncheck 'hide non-alphanumeric channels'. By the way, I agree this option shouldn't be checked by default.

and channels with 10000 users or more, increase the total count but aren't displayed.

This is also configurable in the list options dialogs, but here's a bug: mirc doesn't save a value greater than 9999.

Private channels, supposed to be displayed as "*", are completely ignored.

Are you sure about this one? private (+p) channels aren't meant to be sent by the server in response to a /list command.

Actually they are, they just display the name as "*" and no topic, so all you can see is the number of users. Even the RFC says so:



("Prv" is actually how it was displayed in the irc2.8 client, the server still sent it as "*")

Ah, you're right. DALnet servers don't seem to be following the RFC on this matter (by not sending entries for private channels) and that was misleading.

Anyway, I really see no point in displaying only the amount of users of an unknown channel with an unknown topic, because it doesn't help much. As for now those channels are (as you said) completely ignored, but I think it would be nice if they were counted without being displayed.