It would be nice to have option to generate link preview (link card) on sender client side, and send it to receiver of message. Benefit is that receiver would be able to glance and read description before clicking on link. Here are a few examples of link preview: [image] how to generate li…

[image] Leanderl: I guess Delta chat is not an app for “normal users” who want things to work out of the box It’s just lack of developer’s time. Stay calm, and use fresh releases. [image] Leanderl: I haven’t found a way to add a chatbot to one on one conversations with my daughter Cre…

[image] 9er: [image] Leanderl: I haven’t found a way to add a chatbot to one on one conversations with my daughter Create a group with her, and add the bot there. I feel it’s hard to keep a nice tone of conversation when reading this. It feels like you think it didn’t occur to me, whic…

Leanderl, it is very hard to judge these things when talking to a complete stranger in text format. When I first spoke to @9er I very seriously underestimated their technical and English competence. No offense is intended. Can you add a bot to any group? What happens when you add a bot contact?

I noted [image] Leanderl: to one on one conversations but it not clearly states why the group chat may be inacceptable. Personally I don’t like the fact that in such group chat any bot will see cleartext content of all chat messages, and if it runs on someone else’s server, it may be unacce…

Does anyone know the address of the link preview bot that sends the previews as a webxdc app?

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[image] 9er: but it not clearly states why the group chat may be inacceptable. In my opinion, creating a group with one person or having direct contact are exactly the same thing, the only difference being that you can add other contacts to the conversation (such as a bot). I would be agains…

BTW for now it’s possible to establish one-to-one conversation with preview bot, send some URL to the bot, and forward bot’s responce (preview picture and copy of webpage) to another one-to-one conversation.

I really think link preview is a necessary feature and i used a bot (WebPreview Bot) as per recommendation. But now that stopped working since a few months and i cant find another one… Does anyone know of a working link preview bot?

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Feature Proposal

DavidSM100 August 21, 2025, 10:15pm 29

Source code at DavidSM100/webcopy-bot - Codeberg.org

Wanted: bot which turns a webpage into an xdc