Steps like introducing the “show emails” option and it’s default “no”
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.”
Sure I believe you. I even think I saw such requests for this use-case myself somewhere, but concluded that just doing away with the emails (and by default, nothing less) and then only optionally showing emails doesn’t cut it just right.
It unfortunately cuts off a large part of the deltachat users from being reachable for a chat by classic email contacts.
The problem can be solved elegantly though, I think,
- with that metric for emails that qualify emails as chat attempts, together with
- changing the “show emails” option into a broader reachability option (for both chat messages and chat qualifying emails), and
- the option to hide that default “new emails” counter (which helps new users to get started with their empty chat list).