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#deltachat PSAs regarding the last 24 hours:

1) If you messaged someone about 20-30 hours ago, and did not get an expected response/receipt better "resend" (long-tap or right-click the message to resend). Unfortunately, not all queued messages at the crashing nine.testrun.org server made it to the new one.

2) 2.33+ app releases are rolling out, supporting using "multiple relays" so that failing relays (like happened above) will not cause lost messages anymore. See support.delta.chat/t/how-to-mi…

jack-sparrow-sinking-ship meme with three text parts: the sinking boat: "nine's discs failing" Sparrow stepping on to the harbor: "Nine's admins" The safe harbor: "New Nine server / 2.33 Multi-relay releases rolling"

How to migrate your profile to another relay (version 2.33)

Let’s say you have initially created a profile on the default relay and want to migrate away from it. Update at least to 2.33 on all your devices: Help testing upcoming Delta Chat 2.33.
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Would you be so kind and explain how "2)" works? It's hard to imagine.
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there is a blog post coming. bear with us :)

but roughly the current first multi-relay release introduces the ability to have more than one relay associated to your chat profile. You can choose what is your primary device, but will receive messages also on all secondaries. This is just an intermediate step towards another release where the outcome will be: if any relay works, the message will get through. single relays failing don't matter.

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Thanks. Still hard to imagine.
Would it mean that is also a way to change a severer without losing the connections? Say somebody started 2018 with Gmail but now wants to be recognized on their own server (e.g., own company …)?
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@devSJR yes, that's the plan that you can exit from gmail or other big providers if you started with them. It's just that the last weeks were a lot of work for everyone involved, and we still need to stay attentive/co-ordinate about any issues in conjunction with rolling 2.33 releaeses (it's more complicated than you might think). Originally, we only wanted to publically talk/educate about it when the releases are fully available for people. Maybe just check back next week :)
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You are certainly right when you say “it's more complicated than you might think”. I am fine with waiting.

BTW, I always like these non-noisy updates. The last one included "calls" which is a big deal. However, it seemed to have the same importance as “we fixed this one bug that affect one person in a hypothetical scenario”. In this release, there is yet another big feature.

Keep up the good work.

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