I love the concept of using existing protocols, but the implementation here creates a mismatch in expectation between the communicating users. I may be 'chatting' with someone that doesn't use Delta, and they just see short emails that don't conform to social norms for email content. Then they decide to cc a bunch of people into the conversation. Now what? The part of chat that I would like to see solved is end-to-end encryption for all, and interoperability between the existing protocols. This is just a shitty email client.
I have been hoping to see some new email clients that would auto load a feed of contacts and make the views appear similar to fbok / buddypress - have it auto load next emails and any images (if from contacts) - so an endless scroll could be - and option to reply to each post / feed item / email..
I think making the ux similar to what people are familiar with / similar to the most popular options (maybe like twitter and wechat too) -
we'd get a chance of getting people away from the walled gardens -
I'd love for new apps to not only provide that kind of ux, but also give options to send comments (and also recieve in the client and display) via other platforms like signal, matrix, activity pub, all the bridges..
It would need icons next to messages to show which portal they are coming from / going to, is it encrypted, etc.
I for one would very much like to see new viewing options for some shitty email clients.
I appreciate the home page of this delta chat is showing screen views for desktop, android, iPhone - wish all products did this.
