Option to overcome cluttered channels tree about convos HOT 2 OPEN

We've been wanting to be able to "favorite" channels for a while, but in your case, it might be useful to actually "hide" channels instead. I'm thinking we could add a visibility attribute (other name is more than welcome) to a conversation object and use that in any way we want in the user interface.

1. Add a visibility attribute to https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/blob/main/lib/Convos/Core/Conversation.pm. This could be a number, where -1 = hide, 0 = normal, and let's say 100 could be favorite. This attribute must also be added to TO_JSON, and the relevant tests must be updated.
2. One hurdle is that there isn't any good way to change the Conversation object by the user, so we either need a new endpoint in https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/blob/main/public/convos-api.yaml and a new controller to update the given object, or we could just make a new command in https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/blob/main/lib/Convos/Core/Connection/Irc.pm#L37 to change the visibility, like /visibility #convos -1. If we go for the command, it would be nice to steal the command from other clients.
3. After that, we need new logic in https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/blob/main/assets/components/ChatSidebar.svelte to sort by visibility and hide those with -1. The -1 conversations should however appear if searched for and maybe we should display them if notifications is above 0?

If anyone wants to work on this, then https://convos.chat/doc/develop should give you an idea on how to get started.

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This would be the new section in the menu - it can be hidden if there are no Favourites.

And this could be one option to make a channel a favourite, but I would need to figure out how that stores the state. I saw that disabling Notify me on new messages on that section creates a new key in localStorage called convos:chat:wantNotifications, so the same could be done for favourite? Where is that localStorage key coming from? Is it from the API?

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