You’re right we should already solve the subject manner and the contact request naming manner. I agree.
Believe it or not that was actually a community request. “I don’t want to get emails in deltachat, I have my mail program/app for that.”
I think we could solve such problems with a better help site that explains everything and maybe a small wizard at the first start of the app. But actually such a wizard is a risk, because most people want to use it simply as a messenger and have already an email app connected to that, and might be scared away by such a wizard.
Not to mention that WhatsApp is not only through the network effect as successful as it is, but also because the simple 2 step setup:
- Put in your phonenumber
- recieve the sms and put - in the code (they even do that step automaticaly if you give them access to your sms messages)
But let’s discuss this topic in the thread it actually belongs to Use-cases, chat rules and configuration options - #14 by Simon