list function

[Rachel Llorenna]

It shouldn't act differently on other servers, but hard-coding a line
into the LIST output would solve your problem. It's an ugly hack, but
it will work, so long as you distribute it amongst all your servers.


On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:21:37 -0600, junk <junk at boxchat.net> wrote:
> I thought that's how it worked, but I have 4 servers running all the
> same versions of ircd-hybrid(7.0.3). Using the same client (xchat) I can
> connect to each server and get the channel I would like on top on only
> two of the servers. The other two servers show the same but different
> channel on top.
> BTW,  The channel I want on top is /cycled every five minutes to
> recreate it.
> If there is nothing I can do then fine. But was just curious as to why
> it acts different on some of the servers.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Rachel Llorenna wrote:
> 
> >If I recall correctly, ircd-hybrid uses the channel creation date to
> >display channels in LIST output, but most IRC clients rearrange it to
> >the creator's liking. mIRC, for example, sorts by the number of users,
> >while other clients do not do any sorting. You can *send* the channel
> >list entry first, but that doesn't mean that it will be on the top due
> >to client-side sorting. Your best bet is to perhaps falsify the user
> >count so that it's much larger (impossibly so) than all the other
> >channels. There really isn't any easy way to ensure that it always
> >comes out on the top of channel listings.
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:37:18 -0600, junk <junk at boxchat.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>How does the /list function figure the order it is going to display the
> >>channels?
> >>Is there a way I can have one channel stay at the top of the /list on
> >>all of our servers?
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>Wade
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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> 


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Regards,

Rachel Llorenna (frequency)