mark a channel as {interested in,appealing to} new members

[awfulcooking]

there are tons of channels on IRC, and it's hard to find ones which appeal to one's own interests.

particularly when those channels may only be starting, it's not always practical to find them.

this is a passing thought for a new channel mode. or maybe a new use for +i, if that can be made to work.

it could indicate that the channel is interested in gaining members, is about a topic that is currently (or should be) popular, or may appeal to a wider range of people than it currently does.

then allow those channels to be sorted, perused in a client to show people interesting new options.

[slingamn]

This is a really interesting idea, but it's hard to get traction around new modes. Maybe something more general with tags (in both senses of the term)? (Channels "tag" themselves in the semantic sense with identifiers like lounge, newbies-welcome, rust-language, then these tags are attached to LIST responses via message-tags, and there's a variant of LIST that lets you search for a tag?)

[awfulcooking]

i guess if a regular mode were used, it could go in ISUPPORT or a cap

channel tags are a really good idea