Channels reveal who the owner is

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channels reveal the profile of the channel owner / author, right?

If so, I think this should be more obviously reflected in the UI. Maybe a small avatar bubble of the profile on the corner of the channel avatar?

Anyway, there’s a lot of opportunities for improving this UX when channels are properly separated from chats.

For example, in my own custom chatmail app, I made channels more like publishing buckets like a “close friends” story on instagram. Since the channel author is revealed, I just removed the ability to set a custom avatar for a channel. So it’s like

Profile: John Doe
Channels:

• John Doe (default)
• Baby photos
• Music
• Now reading

Each channel is just a topic and broadcast list essentially. If someone is subscribed to more than one channel from the same author, the content is just merged together in one feed.

If someone wants a custom avatar for a channel, that is a good heuristic for knowing that they actually want a new profile and not a new channel.

[ploum]

This is indeed a problem I’ve encountered myself. The channel I created became way more popular than I expected. I was told to create a new profile for it but, too late, may main identity is now “spammed” by people reacting in private to my channel posts.

Is spam on Delta Chat a known problem? [subscriber spam towards the broadcast channel owner]

Question related to sharing contact and spam : First situation : I give my contact link (the link contained in the QR code) to someone. This person can use this link to add me on DeltaChat. AND he decide to publish this link on the internet (without me knowing). => I will start to receive unsolicited contact requests from strangers. => I can block these strangers, AND => I can decide to re-generate a new QRcode contact link to stop future requests coming from the first contact link. Second…

For my next channel, I created a new profile, as suggested. But this channel became more intimate and is a channel where, in the end, I’m a lot more confortable sharing my identity.

Too late…

Option to ignore chat invites and being added to groups for a profile

Except it is not an argument. I didnot try to prove you anything. Maybe I misunderstood your older messages, but it seemed to me like you used and made assumptions about delta chat without having read the faq before (you posted a channel link on the internet and expected your profile to be 100% private). I just explained what is the current situation of Delta chat, why you are receiving spam, and that there are other solutions (RSS) which are actually far better for what you are trying to achie…

This is a major problem for the wide adoption of channels. I listed it here:

What are actual Delta Chat limitations?

I propose to list all current Delta Chat technical weaknesses/limitations that would prevent you to recommend DC instead of others (Signal, Matrix, Whatsapp, …) The goal is to have an honest and transparent pictures of what you should not expect from Delta Chat right now. It is only technical. Some items might be out of scope or voluntarily avoided. Others may be implemented later. The goal is not to lobby for some features but be clear about what you should expect or not. (maybe this post co…

[deltino]

I’ll keep saying that there should be a warning rather than disabling it, because having comments for the channel is actually a plus

Something like “are you sure you want to make a channel with this profile? The profile is visible to subscribers”

[ploum]

In Whatsapp channels, even the creator of the channel cannot contact people who subscribed to it.