When creating a group chat, the person who created the chat should be assigned the role of owner and admin. They should then also be able to assign mod role to other members. Any member should NOT be able to kick another member without admin/mod roles.
Actual behavior
No hierarchy exists. Anyone in the group can kick anyone else. This is bad if the group wants to be public and have non-friendly users join.
Please add owner/admin/mod roles to secure groups that want to be public from being abused.
this is known, and at some point we will probably iterate over that, so that huge, untrusted group get better support. there are lots of ideas and internal discussions about that.
however, already today, twhen using Delta Chat as it is supposed to, in small, known circles you trust (family, friends…), in practise, this is far less of an issue than one may expect
Yes it is great in small group chat with trusted friends. Let me know where I can provide potential ideas for admin/mod capabilities. Have you tried Keet messenger? It’s P2P but has good admin/mod support in groups.
lots of ideas usually pile up in the real-life meetings with devs and users, eg. soon on DIFF in Freiburg/Germany (invitation), but surely also here in the forum.
It’s going to be a very cool conference, so many new things are planned, great. I admire Delta Chat, the best secure messenger in the world, and I’m not kidding.
