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Very disappointed indeed. Keybase is one of the ones I actually used.

• pmorici 6y ago
  There was a competitor app that got posted here a couple weeks ago. https://keys.pub/ https://keys.pub/
  • chupasaurus 6y ago
    Which already did some things wrong even though Keybase is around for a few years.
    • MrGilbert 6y ago
      Care to elaborate? Just curious...
      • chupasaurus 6y ago
        https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22997245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22997245 and requiring gnome-keyring on Linux are issues for me.
        • Spivak 6y ago
          Does it actually require GNOME Keyring or does it just use libsecret? Because libsecret is dope and has been nothing but a joy to work with.
          • chupasaurus 6y ago
            https://keys.pub/docs/specs/keyring.html https://keys.pub/docs/specs/keyring.html
          • trey-jones 6y ago
            I've seen some examples of GNOME keyring being required because it implements the freedesktop secrets standard (which I admit to knowing nothing of) where other secret managers do not. Presumably meaning there us no common interface, so we just pick the one that implements the spec. One example: https://github.com/pithos/pithos/issues/559 https://github.com/pithos/pithos/issues/559
        • pmorici 6y ago
          Those looks like differences and matters of preference not anything "wrong" about it.
          • namibj 6y ago
            Well, there are reasons why Keybase changed from key-centric to identity-centric back in 2015: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-new-key-model https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-new-key-model
        • terrywang 6y ago
          It's (dependency on gnome-keyring) been fixed in the latest release [1]. Assuming GNOME shell is Linux users' default desktop environment is very wrong. However, providing desktop GUI app in AppImage format is great. [1]: https://github.com/keys-pub/app/issues/6 https://github.com/keys-pub/app/issues/6