What is your recipe to maintain contact with people using random servers you promote on your site?
What is a justification to use a random server which cannot last for the next 6 or 12 months?
The point of using Messaging Apps is to establish and maintain contact with people.
How can I maintain contact with the person I added using Delta Chat with some random server run by nerd who just rent a VPS for a couple of months instead of buying another hamburger or weed.
What is a basic requirement to put the server address on your list: Chatmail: Relays ?
currently, we regard all servers listed during onboarding as being safe and stable for the foreseeable time. the list is curated manually, and, by far, not exhaustive.
to mitigate failure of some servers, we are working towards picking randomised server during onboarding and towards multi-relay support so that choices don’t easily leave you stranded.
further minimisation of metadata make it easier for operators to decide to run a relay as well as for the user, as the server are just “dumb” and do not persist or see many data.
As I wrote in another post, it would be nice to just be able to use your mail and be able to configure the turn server for calls. Or am I missing something, as far as for example mail configured on HestiaCP Exim+Davecot will be worse than chatmail
Multi-relay support will be a great improvement for reliability and I look forward to it. But I also do see a risk which comes with the messaging that new relay operators can start new relays and it won’t matter if they are unreliable or shut down without warning. By discouraging the individual responsibility of relay operators with the justification of collective responsibility, relay operators might be more likely to shut down without warning, possibly leading to a situation where all the relays which a person or group of people is using shut down around the same time, leaving them without any working relays.
For each correspondent create 2-3 accounts on different servers.
Switch between accounts periodically, to spot server problems. Replace failed server’ accounts with accounts on other servers.
Maybe create a group with all the contacts, disable notifications on backup accounts; this will work like poor man’s multi-transport.
