Delta Chat

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Delta Chat, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Interface is unpolished and unappealing to use2026-09-14
Took several clicks to find the GitHub repo; Internet Standards link redirects confusingly2025-06-24
Email handling is messy, so it can't be used as a normal mail client2025-03-05
End-to-end encryption over email is hard to make user-friendly2021-01-24
Starting a new chat is hidden in a "..." menu that looks like settings2021-01-24
Each message sent creates a new thread cluttering recipients' Gmail inbox2019-02-27
Non-Delta recipients see short chat messages as emails and get confused by cc'd group threads2019-02-21