diff --git a/lib/console_ui.dart b/lib/console_ui.dart
index 9bed42b..aa37380 100644
--- a/lib/console_ui.dart
+++ b/lib/console_ui.dart
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ bool sendDeleteEvent(Store node, String eventIdToDelete) {
         String toSendMessage = '["EVENT",{"id":"$id","pubkey":"$userPublicKey","created_at":$createdAt,"kind":$replyKind,"tags":[$strTags],"content":"$content","sig":"$sig"}]';
         sendRequest( gListRelayUrls1, toSendMessage);
         print("sent event delete request with id = $id");
-        print(toSendMessage);
+        //print(toSendMessage);
       } else {
         print("${gWarningColor}The given id was not found and/or is not a valid id, or is not your event. Not deleted.$gColorEndMarker"); 
       }
@@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ Future<void> otherMenuUi(Store node) async {
           String toDeleteId = eventIdToDelete.first;
           print("Going to send a delete event for the following event with id ${toDeleteId}");
           sendDeleteEvent(node, eventIdToDelete.first);
+          await processAnyIncomingEvents(node, false); // get latest event, this takes 300 ms
         } else {
           print("Invalid Event Id(s) entered = {$eventIdToDelete}");
         }
diff --git a/pubspec.yaml b/pubspec.yaml
index 76148b8..72b8264 100644
--- a/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/pubspec.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ description: A multi-platform nostr client built for terminal/console.
 version: 0.0.8-beta
 homepage: https://github.com/vishalxl/nostr_console 
 
-# Release 0.0.8-beta channel creation, and improved processing of incoming, with fix for this; fixed translation crash
+# Release 0.0.8a-beta channel creation, and improved processing of incoming, with fix for this; fixed translation crash
+# delete post improvement
 
 environment:
   sdk: '>=2.17.3 <3.0.0'