I used to enthusiastically read the delta chat blog posts every month. It was so cool to see the new features discussed, roadmap plans, technology details.
Did the person that write them take a break from the project? Is the project at a place where there is no more vision driving it forward? Don’t know where to take Delta Chat anymore beyond that v2 protocol update?
the authors indeed put a lot of effort into each posts!
in general, however, we aim to post less about plans and the future, but more about what has happened and what exist, and there, only blog about larger changes, not making a fuzz about every tiny detail.
so there were always some periods where there is not so much to blog about.
for the project, however, it was rarely more vibrant than these days, lots of large things are in the queue, among that, calls, channels and multi-relay - but we will blog about that when it is done.
in between, however, you might follow Delta Chat on Mastodon at https://chaos.social/@delta - if you like the blog, you will love that as well - mostly the same authors are posting there
I will always sing the praises of delta chat since it has gone in this direction of one tap onboarding with multi-account support. It’s amazing. And the use of iroh is so clever. Just use the mail server as the fallback.
Those new things you’ve mentioned, is it kind of taking Delta Chat in a specific direction? I’m curious what those things will enable and who they’re for.
Aimed at more decentralization and less reliance on the servers? Aimed at being a discord replacement for larger groups? Etc
we continue focusing on small chats for friends and family; being a secure, reliable, decentralised communication tool for the many - so easy to use, easy to onboard.
the “multi relay” is important for even more decentralisation: user can more freely onboarded on different relays, say 3, then it does not matter if one relay goes down. at the same time, this is a big relief for relay operators, who do not feel guilty if they want to stop their relay for whatever reason - but would cut thousands of ppl from communication with their friends and family. this is no longer an issue with “multi relay”.
in short, we want to provide the “right to exist” for everyone
details need to be figured out, not everything is settled 100%, so i cannot tell much more here. but we definitely want to have all that in a way, that the “many” do not need to care at all. the onboarding shall not change!