Hello fellow privacy and security enthusiasts. I have done the unimaginable and got my normie friends group to migrate away from the insecure Telegram and to a Delta Chat group. But, there are some growing pains. They’re not all happy and are about to abandon DC. Having the ability to mention/tag s…

there are lots of internal discussions and ideas over these things. all are in competition with other things to do :slight_smile: for “mentions”, at least, you get notified for direct replies etc., see “Settings / Notifications”. but sure, sth. as @user would be nice to have as well. [IMG_9407 2] …

Will be happy to donate. What will it take to prioritize mentions as @user in next sprint?

we have no price tags for features atm. but there were indeed ideas around that, that you can donate and vote for a concrete feature. but also that needs to be organised. and would probably not be completely random, to still spend resources in areas with high impact. also note, that many things are…

I think the most I could afford is to indefinitely do the large subscription donation through liberapay Really need mentions @r10s it’s the only thing that will help keep my normie friends from going back to telegram. Would this help expedite it? I could help alpha/beta test it and help any other …

I asked perplexity its thoughts on adding mentions. Is it all even close? Okay, I need to figure out how to contribute to the Delta Chat Desktop project by adding support for @mentions. Let me start by understanding the existing codebase and any related components. First, looking at the search re…

[image] Spl0itable: I asked perplexity its thoughts on adding mentions. Is it all even close? it does not make sense to discuss these high-level things with or via AI here. this is not helpful and just wastes time. but we surely got that mentions are an important thing for some people - as …

I generally consider posting AI answers as rude behaviour, similarly to LMGT links like https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=deltachat+mentions . Feels like zero own effort, while expecting others to read the novel that the LLM spit out.

That’s fine. I won’t submit a PR. I’ll just fork. Best of luck on your half-baked messenger.

forking is a fine way to suggest different features. For example arcane chat (known as delta lab at that time) introduced the recently seen indicators first. working code is always a good argument :wink:

Some resources that may help you: Add @Mentions by Simon-Laux · Pull Request #49 · deltachat/message-parser · GitHub , though that approach of using the email address may break with the upcoming multi transport feature and is not really readable for chatmail email addresses, which are random. So at …

Mentions/tagging and link unfurling (previews) to save my normie friend group

Feature Proposal

ian August 13, 2026, 1:12pm 13