GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 432576
Join/leave messages make chatrooms with many members almost unreadable
Last modified: 2019-02-23 02:49:44 UTC
The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat-gnome/+bug/108818 "Binary package hint: xchat-gnome When joinging a large Chat-Room (such as #ubuntu or #ubuntu-release-party) the discussion gets totally bogged down by the join leave messages. So if more than 1000 members are in a chatroom sometimes more than 7 of 10 messages are just join/leave which leaves much less room to the alreaddy fast moving ocnversation and makes it very difficult to follow it. Other irc-clients have a sort of conference mode for this, so that if a room contians more than N members, they stop showing the join/leave messages. I'd like that. :) Good numbers for N could be either 10, 30 or 60 members, though that could also be determined empirically, that is the number of members to a chatroom when the join / leave messages start to get more on the nerves than they are usefull. ..."
It would also be useful to have an ability to not show join/leave messages for individuals who have left two or more times in the past 10 minutes. This would eliminate the annoying chatter of clients on bad networks that are cycling on and off.
You can use "/set irc_conf_mode 1" to do this, but some sort of automatic heuristic (or even some kind of fading, non-permanent message) might be nice.
I'd like to vote for this bug, and ask that it's implemented on a per-channel basis (like I can do with x-chat). I do appreciate join/part messages on channels with few users, but don't like them in very busy channels (30+ users). btw, love the interface otherwise. I think distros should make it a default.
xchat-gnome is not under active development anymore. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/xchat-gnome/commits/master Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather reactivate the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. You may want to switch to Hexchat (or another IRC client that suits you).