My only gripe with delta chat is that the metadata most email stores keep per email message is measured in kilobytes (sometimes tens of them). View-source is very enlightening. For email messages which are often 1K-200K themselves with attachments, and somtimes > 10MB, I guess it's acceptable.
For one line "How about lunch today?" messages, it just hurts my engineer bones to use Delta-Chat on a regular email server.
Yes, i'd guess a simple message might start at around 1kB and in a chat application you probably never exceed 2kB.
Considering the massive amount of data i can store on even the cheapest smart phone, the available bandwidth even under bad conditions,
i'd say, that's a totally acceptable size.
It could be less for sure, but it's not bad.
And it's plain text, so storage is not even a problem, it's easily compressed!
Now, don't let me compare 1kB data download to visiting a website and all the crapload i download for the simplest webpage nowadays...
I agree, in the grand scheme of everything internet/web, it’s not even a rounding error. And yet, the 2000% overhead is viscerally bothering me.
I’m not even saying “there must be a better way” - it is quite possible that there isn’t given the politics involved and the incumbents. Delta is usable, today, with everyone; no need for buy in from your addressees.
Yep. Actually, i've used it now with some friends and it works very well.
Part of them is only using email, 2 are using the apps.
Two quirks:
1. Of course your mail provider needs to have IMAP enabled (some corporate outlook/exchange installations do not).
2. It could be a problem if you mail provider has a limit on maximum mails per day. I've not experienced that problem, but still..
For one line "How about lunch today?" messages, it just hurts my engineer bones to use Delta-Chat on a regular email server.