I’m interested in collecting the things that block or slow down the adoption of delta chat. What is the most annoying missing Feature to you? What prevents people from using delta chat? I’ll start with some things: reliable iOS Push Notifications (the heartbeat server made things a bit better, …

[image] WofWca: desktop is sluggish (performance) unless you have a $1000+ machine with idle CPU and disk. Is Deltatouch, which also runs on desktop, less sluggish?

I can’t compare it, unfortunately, but I would guess that it should be, because it doesn’t need IPC and all this JSON parsing and stringification (I’m not sure if it still uses those though).

I think that, apart from new features, it’s also important to standardize the functionality across the different clients. Full synchronization between all devices would certainly make sense as well. Contacts and profile descriptions are not synchronized yet. As far as I know, these features aren’t …

[image] Raiden: profile descriptions are not synchronized yet. they are synchonised as soon as you send a message to someone. but yeah, that can be improved still

Oh, that’s a misunderstanding. I wasn’t referring to the bio, but to the profile description that appears in the profile switcher. If you use the same one on multiple devices and want to change the description, you have to do it manually on each one. As for syncing contacts, I don’t know how others…

I’m still waiting for stickers. At some point I think I’m going to have to implement sharable sticker packs myself, because it doesn’t seem like it’s a priority for anyone else

My friends have been using the stickers that are built in to iOS. But if someone posts one of those, the other people can’t hold down to save it in the iOS stickers. You’d have to save it as a photo and then hold down on that photo to save it as a sticker… lol Is there a way for you to use an opera…

[image] WofWca: And the fact that you always have to enter full screen in order to see the uncropped image. Feature proposal and discussion: [image] Control cropping and centering of image previews Feature Proposal When you post a photo in the chat, it …

[image] Raiden: I think that, apart from new features, it’s also important to standardize the functionality across the different clients. I think this is fine for Merlinux’s suite of first-party clients, but I like many of Deltatouch’s UI differences. And Arcanechat is often used to test new …

I was referring to features, not the UI.

Adoption Blockers: What is the most annoying missing Feature to you?

ian May 18, 2026, 6:14pm 64

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