Unable to message a user

[devindice]

Chat does not take you to user messages

[legionnaireneyland]

Could you share repro steps? Which contact were you messaging — a direct 0-hop node, or one reached via a repeater — and did anything appear when you hit send? One likely cause: repeaters configured for 2-byte paths were unreachable. That's now configurable in the latest build (Settings → Path mode), which may resolve this. If it still fails after matching the path mode to your repeater, tell me exactly what you tried and I'll dig in.

[legionnaireneyland]

Thanks @devindice. To message a user, start from the Contacts app (not Chat): open Contacts → roll to the person → press the trackball to open their menu → choose Message. That creates/opens their DM thread and jumps you into Chat.

The Chat app itself only shows threads you already have — there's currently no "new message" entry point inside it, which may be what tripped you up. If you'd prefer to start DMs from within Chat directly, say the word and I'll add a "New message → pick contact" shortcut there.

Could you try the Contacts → Message path on the latest build (https://meshdeck-os.github.io/meshdeck/) and confirm it opens the DM? If a specific contact still won't open, let me know whether it's a direct (0-hop) node or reached via a repeater, and what happens when you hit send.