I got a group of non-technical friends to agree to try Delta Chat and I don’t want them to have to do debugging, so apologies if details are limited. One user created a group chat and shared the invitation link with the group. Me and one other user were able to join using that link. A fourth user…

The response for that topic was for a little different situation. In your specific case, the person who has generated the invite link can reset the invite link anytime manually, and it will cease to work immediately. Each member within the group is able to generate an invite link of their own. If y…

[image] ian: Note that it is just a small inconvenience that joining the first time may take up to 8 hours (until the sender wakes up). A workaround already exists by adding an invite bot to your group that ran on a server 24/7. In this case it has been a few days. Can you elaborate on where…

I don’t see how guessing randomly over here will help, but my guess is they have already uninstalled Delta Chat from their device by now. The workflow I follow is to create all needed groups myself and invite others (i.e., then the uptime of my devices will matter, not their, and as I have a bunch …

[image] ian: I don’t see how guessing randomly over here will help, but my guess is they have already uninstalled Delta Chat from their device by now. It is unfortunate that I don’t have access to the devices experiencing the issue. Rather than random guessing, I would like to find informati…

Sleep takes 8 hours. The secure join invite link requires a round trip so you can reset it and no further users would harass you through that link. Once your vCard gets leaked out, anyone could spam you at present, hence why I only recommend it to experts.

That is interesting. I wonder if the Signal protocol has a way around this, such that the user can delegate the role of invite sender to the server without compromising end-to-end security… [image] ian: Sleep takes 8 hours. Ah, LOL! So what has to happen before and after sleep in order for…

[image] bleb: X replied, waiting for being added to the group… This tells us that it’s probably not about the device being offline and not about the invite QR being “reset”, because then we wouldn’t get to this point, so this seems a bit weird to me. Regarding iOS and push notifications see F…

[image] WofWca: This tells us that it’s probably not about the device being offline and not about the invite QR being “reset”, because then we wouldn’t get to this point, so this seems a bit weird to me. Could you clarify how many round trips are normally needed for this type of join? If the…

Related: [image] Provide feedback on the user interface when hidden control messages result in error Feature Proposal This improves debugging when messages get lost in any direction during the invite process. The general idea is to provide feedback about inter…

User stuck at "waiting to be added to group"

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ian September 8, 2026, 6:56pm 11