NoDice said:
and since their is no “server list” like in 1.6/cs:s this is the only way
That’s wrong.
Type “openserverbrowser” from console and you get the server list, complete with favorites and all the other community and friend based joining options that CSS and TF2 have.
It would be cool to have that but I’ve found that the majority of their new “features” to be extremely buggy, especially anything that touches the L4D autojoin system. Might want to test this before turning it on and walking away.