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March 2, 2026, 9:35pm
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Supporting to “dock” webxdc and allowing access to DC UX & native API is a recurring idea. I can’t put my finger on which topic covers it the best, but this comes to mind:
Many features require bots, but they don’t require “complicated” bots. I think it would be very useful to be able to run bots, aka automatic treatment of messages, directly inside deltachat:
Telegram-like channels (Can we have channels feature like telegram? ) can be done with a bot that sends messages to everyone but discards all incoming messages
Individual bots, like downloader, AI, text to image, voice to image, Mastodon bridge… will only take instructions from me and talk to me, they will …
Sending the whole state instead of a diff for each update may have quite the throughput and data storage impact for 99.9% of the cases.
As a compromise, each webxdc (or the webxdc API) might provide hypothetical facilities for sanity checking so that apps themselves could implement such recovery, such as:
The webxdc client who was offline for too long could detect that gaps happened in the timeline (in whatever way with a separate counter), and then sent a webxdc message with the missing ID r…
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