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deltachat / deltachat-android

deltachat-android

Decentralized private messenger with chat-shared tools and games for Android

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Decentralized private messenger with chat-shared tools and games for Android

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-02-21 14:56:47 UTC to 2025-08-25 08:04:21 UTC.

01232019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Flere-Imsaho·Aug 25, 2025
Interesting - thanks. It looks like at least the Android and iOS apps have been updated in the last few days - so it is under active development: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios Doesn't work with all email providers though, from their FAQ: https://providers.delta.chat/ Proton mail isn't supported (I'm guessing because of the way Proton encrypts your email at rest?).
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BlackLotus89·Feb 21, 2019
E-Mail got extended as much as it could and COI doesn't change anything about it. If you want something like COI you can use deltachat https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android I couldn't find any specification about anything (encryption, contacts, group-chats,...) and the worst part is that it doesn't even solve the arbitrary problems it poses itself. privacy? Fat chance when you use E-mail. "big bad providers" (yes that is the summary of all the other "points") you still have those too And the solutions that are there and work like matrix or xmpp are no solution, because of user adaption? Hello... Users have to adapt your "protocol" as well and I don't see any added value... It's just an idea for chat over email which I can do right now with the right Client. Ps matrix AND xmpp both support bridges for other protocols. Pps they mis
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s the point of what is needed most right now/what the problem is. Pps https://xkcd.com/927/ Edit while writing others postet the same stuff I postet
In COI – Chat Over IMAP

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