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Has Keybase lost it's way? I thought they were onto something cool and maybe could explore an enterprise play with private chats, filesharing and git for teams
by mr_puzzled 8y ago
Has Keybase lost it's way? I thought they were onto something cool and maybe could explore an enterprise play with private chats, filesharing and git for teams or something like that. Basically make money by selling to teams. But Keybase seems to have stagnated, existing apps are still quite buggy, not enough new developments recently. The facepalm moment for me was when they announced they were supported by the Stellar foundation. I lost all hope then and there. I get that you guys are buddies with the Stellar folk, you think Stellar is cool etc but an objective analysis leads to only one answer : don't do it you'll regret. Maybe add it as a feature (stellar integration) but don't go all in. Speaking of Stellar, still no integration after 1 year?? Focus on what you have and start making money. So, what went wrong malgorithms?
(Sorry if this sounds harsh or rude, there's no point in sugar coating the truth. Hopefully the keybase teams reads this criticism and does a little soul searching.)
- LeoPanthera 8y agoKeybase's main competitor seems to be Slack. I don't use Slack but I assume that Slack can read all your messages if they want to, so privacy is the main differentiator. All these little quality-of-life improvements on top of that can only be a good thing, IMHO.
- jamesjamesm 8y agoSeems like it, given how shamelessly they are ripping off Slack's UI.
- glerk 8y ago> Speaking of Stellar, still no integration after 1 year?? There is integration with Stellar in keybase. I can use the app as a stellar wallet and send/receive lumens. https://u.today/keybase-starts-supporting-stellar-wallets https://u.today/keybase-starts-supporting-stellar-wallets
- dcbadacd 8y agoTry updating your client.
- tosh 8y agoIn a sense keybase is one of the most important projects built right now (that I can think of). It covers aspects (think pareto principle) of email, linkedin, slack, github, dropbox, whatsapp, online banking and probably more core use cases that I don’t have on top of my mind. That is now, today. With a decent user experience that keeps getting better (see recent improvements @ user profiles). => all of that end-to-end encrypted and delivered in a way that it is accessible and usable and fun with a long-tail of users in mind. [I have no idea what an equivalent would be right now, not even as combination of multiple separate projects. Think about that.]
- dmitriid 8y ago> It covers aspects (think pareto principle) of email, linkedin, slack, github, dropbox, whatsapp, online banking and probably more core use cases that I don’t have on top of my mind. Soooo... A centralized solution for everything? ;)
- techntoke 8y agoExactly... unless the work is open source, they are just another centralized solution. Reminds me of Telegram.
- sympodius 8y agoI thought Keybase was open source? Released under the New BSD (3 Clause) License?
- lrvick 8y agoThe clients are. The platform they all run on top of is centralized, made up its own irresponsibly insecure key handling and crypto protocols, and is proprietary.
- nickik 8y agoThey didn't make any of their own security, they use very well established open-source security libraries for everything. Stop spreading FUD.
- Callmenorm 8y agoI stopped using keybase because it just takes too long to open up the app on keybase and send message on my phone. the desktop client is great, but it's just too slow on mobile.
- floren 8y agoI wanted to make a more light-weight chat client for desktop but unfortunately their Go library documentation was completely impenetrable as of ~6 months ago.
- JshWright 8y ago"Sorry if this sounds harsh or rude, there's no point in sugar coating the truth" You're an idiot if you believe that. (Still agree?)