Everything from my previous post has been added to Delta Chat (yay!), so I’ll make a new one.
- Worse encryption compared to e.g. Signal (no plausible deniability, no perfect forward secrecy).
- Continue where I stayed in the chat (remember scroll position).
- Lack of video messages (as in Telegram and WhatsApp).
- Everything related to stickers is much worse compared to Telegram. Can’t search for them by emoji, can’t easily discover sticker packs and save them.
- Search GIF in chat.
- Message search sucks. It’s not fuzzy. Sometimes you want to search for a message e.g. by two words that are contained in it. For example, if the message is “Yesterday I ate a crayon. It was tasty.” then a query “crayon tasty” would not find this message.
- Lack of group calls.
- Edit: The fact that the other party can edit and delete their messages for everyone regardless of how old the message is.
Not so big but still infuriating:
- Not a missing feature, but the full screen image viewer in desktop sucks. Have to click a tiny cross button to exit it. And the fact that you always have to enter full screen in order to see the uncropped image. And the scroll wheel scrolls the image up and down instead of zooming.
- The lack of the ability to search for an emoji as a reaction on Android. You have to scroll through the (incomplete) list of emojis.
- Old notifications (once they time out and disappear from the bottom right corner) on desktop are close to useless. There is too many of them, i.e. one notification per message, instead of one notification per chat (a problem for group chats), and oftentimes they don’t even get removed even if you already opened the chat. This used to be much worse a few months ago, but there is still work to do. Related: notifications are sometimes not removed from notification center [needs step to reproduce] · Issue #3937 · deltachat/deltachat-desktop · GitHub.
- desktop is sluggish (performance) unless you have a $1000+ machine with idle CPU and disk.