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While onboarding is extremely easy, the real challenge is to find initial contacts or circles to chat with. There is no discovery and no central registry. Every new chat profile is private and nobody knows about it other than your contacts. So we are curious. What is the current number of chats (1:1 or group chats or channels) you have with #deltachat apps? Not contacts but chats you have read or wrote something into, in the last months.
If you are not using delta, please ignore this poll :)

below 5

62.6%

below 10

21.4%

below 30

11.2%

don't ask, too many

4.8%

Poll ended at May 21 at 7:33am.

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Serge Matveenko ♻️☮️ ⩜⃝3d ago

@delta
I don't think discovery (or the lack of it) is the reason.
I don't use discovery on other platforms anyway.
Well, people use discovery to find me by my phone number on Whatsapp but that's usually for one-time chats like delivery or booking confirmations.
The main platform I use for messaging friends and family is Telegram. And I have unknown contacts denied there.

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Serge Matveenko ♻️☮️ ⩜⃝

@delta
I think, Delta lacks personal identity. Meaning a purpose, use case, that could be associated with Delta as the one that Delta fits the best.
The moment that identity is found the rest of development could focus on delivering maximum usability for that use case.
As for me, I use Delta as a safe family chat server on an isolated self-hosted instance. This is the only chat app allowed for my younger child on their phone.