I didn't see this coming. #DeltaChat is discussing to implement a feature that that other messengers already have: #RFC9078 I never expected this to happen. 🥳
A major milestone in our 6+ years long project history: With the rolling 1.46 #deltachat app releases you can start chatting without a pre-existing e-mail address, and benefit from push notifications (instant message delivery) also on Android. We also highlight ways to get in contact with bots and humans, and how #chatmail makes e-mail cheap again https://delta.chat/en/2024-05-31-instant-onboarding
Good news: The NLnet foundation, by means of the NGI0 Entrust fund, is supporting the implementation of Webxdc in DeltaTouch: https://nlnet.nl/project/DeltaTouch/
A release with basic support is planned for around September (rough estimation).
As disclosed by the Delta Chat Team today (link below), several security issues were fixed in the deltachat-core-rust library. The version of the library containing the fixes is incorporated in DeltaTouch 1.4.0 as released on March 6.
It's strongly advised to update to DeltaTouch version 1.4.0, if you haven't already.
#deltachat just got four major usability improvements as the 1.44 releases are rolling out 💗 Reactions on all platforms 💗 iOS Push notifications 💗 Multi-account desktop sidebar 💗 share invite links via other messengers. Enjoy :) https://delta.chat/en/2024-03-12-jumbo44
The last #deltachat 1.44 release round did not only contain a lot of UI/UX milestones but also 20 security fixes based on a deep analysis from Yuanming Song and colleagues of the Applied Cryptography group at ETH Zuerich https://delta.chat/en/2024-03-25-crypto-analysis-securejoin
One might say that my relationship with various methods of receiving bills and receipts is "complicated".
And that's not counting the ones where you have to log into their site every month to download an encrypted file and copy the individual file's passcode. Nobody has time to securely store a file-by-file passcode. Either give it to me unencrypted or use a single passcode that applies to every file.
(This topic came to mind because of @clacke's discussion of storing his receipts in #DeltaChat (which AFAIK is just a chat-like interface atop e-mail ... so I guess all that would also be available in his inbox).
Given the experiences of the last decade it's healthy to distrust #decentralized tech if
- it's mainly developed by a centralized power structure - the involved technology is very complex - there is coin or VC funding involved
#deltachat has 1/100th, if even that, of what other popular messenging projects have in terms of moneys. But our distributed top-notch expertise in UI, crypto, networking tech and our federated collaborative practises across these concerns, try to make up for it ...
While certain platform billionaires chatter about "everything" or "super" app architectures, we prefer to deliver and improve them — message "Hi" to xstore@testrun.org :) #deltachat#webxdc
@KekunPlazas@garrett well, theoretically, there is #XMPP, but I think the community has long lost interest in developing the standard, clients, and servers :( Oh, and there is email, of course. With #deltachat providing a "chatty" UI on top of the email transport.
@mattly @technomancy forgetting the idiosyncrasies here, I've never quite understood the idea of moving from a static web service (whether that be Reddit/Twitter or Kbin/GNU Social) to an IM service (whether that be Messenger/Discord or Telegram/Matrix/IRC/XMPP). They aren't even trying to scratch the same itch, are they?
Sometimes I wonder if one day we'll go back to email, including Mail-lists and #chatClients like #DeltaChat.