the more I test Delta Chat the more I come to the conclusion that it needs another couple years of development before I would heavily rely on it. I've run into way too many issues in my first few weeks, although granted only one was a showstopper.
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in reply to selfhosting.couchsurfing • • •thanks for trying and telling about your experiences!
We generally recommend to use #deltachat for private chatting and your "300 people group" does not sound quite like that. Delta Chat is not geared and not well suited for groups of hundreds of people, today. Are the issues you noted related to such larger groups? If not, would you mind sharing a few, maybe on the support.delta.chat forum?
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in reply to Delta Chat • • •@delta hey, thanks for reaching out! the group in question is the Delta Chat support group, I forget what it was called earlier but somebody renamed it to "DC Explorers (fixed)" within the past couple days. it shows as having 325 members on my client.
I did end up making a new account on a Chatmail relay with a higher quota - ultimately I might end up setting up my own, it just depends on time + energy + having a VPS for reverse proxy with good reputation IP which doesn't block port 25. I have one of those but I'm trying to cut hosting costs so I'll probably just use a public relay til I figure out my consolidation plan :)
I'm definitely planning on submitting issue reports (already started actually under a different username) and registering on the forum, haven't gotten around to the latter yet though.
I'm very appreciative of everyone's work on this and do consider it probably the strongest contender for a grassroots answer to Signal in terms of having a product likely to Just Work for the most people most of the time with further development ... as somebody who's used Signal daily for probably 10 years or so, building services like this is clearly not easy, and it took them quite a while to refine from where they started too.