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Same, they were my preferred platform for secure messaging, which is bizarre when you think about the fact that this wasn't even their original purpose. I guess

Same, they were my preferred platform for secure messaging, which is bizarre when you think about the fact that this wasn't even their original purpose. I guess this was indicative of the general lack of a single defined direction the product was going in near the time of the Zoom acquisition. What a shame. Hopefully someone makes something similar.

giancarlostoro 6y ago
What killed me was I was ready to pay for any features like storage. They just never bothered. I wish they hadnt bought it out and instead just hired their team as consultants... This is a darn shame.
juped 6y ago
What was the draw of Keybase? I wasn't interested when it was a "post all your website usernames here, but with crypto somehow" site, and by the time I looked in on it later, it was an unreadable startup homepage and had some kind of cryptocurrency scam attached to it. If it had a good messaging featureset that should be cloned, former Keybase users should speak up!
- andrewnicolalde 6y ago
  It had excellent chat functionality that worked well, and this was at a time in which the Signal client for Android was still quite buggy (hundreds of Bad encrypted message messages flooding group chats, messages delivered hours late and all at once, poor performance etc.) My group naturally gravitated towards Keybase as our secure messaging platform. The other killer feature was KBFS, which was a sort of shared encrypted filesystem with which you could sync files securely across all of your devices, share files publicly or with specific users or sets of users or groups in cryptographically protected ways. The unintelligible foray into cryptocurrency with Lumens made very little sense to me, but apparently the coins I was gifted for free by Keybase are worth over 100 USD now. I'll probably hold on to them.
  - timerol 6y ago
    FYI, if you want to liquidate those, AnchorUSD makes it really easy to transfer them out to a US bank account.
    - andrewnicolalde 6y ago
      Thanks for the heads up :)
- monadic2 6y ago
  I use the keybase git repo to store my dotfiles. It's quite nice but I'm moving to my own git server instead.
- theshrike79 6y ago
  For me Keybase was a place to collect my public internet profiles in one place, with cryptographic auth that it's actually me. All the chat, team, storage and crypto crap was just superfluous for me.
  - noneeeed 6y ago
    As someone who occasionally needed to share secrets (auth keys etc) with colleagues, or encrypt the odd file, it was really useful, it made all those things a lot easier. Unfortunatly all that extra stuff they piled on top seems to have distracted from just making the basics great.

giancarlostoro 6y ago

What killed me was I was ready to pay for any features like storage. They just never bothered. I wish they hadnt bought it out and instead just hired their team as consultants... This is a darn shame.

juped 6y ago

What was the draw of Keybase? I wasn't interested when it was a "post all your website usernames here, but with crypto somehow" site, and by the time I looked in on it later, it was an unreadable startup homepage and had some kind of cryptocurrency scam attached to it. If it had a good messaging featureset that should be cloned, former Keybase users should speak up!

andrewnicolalde 6y ago
It had excellent chat functionality that worked well, and this was at a time in which the Signal client for Android was still quite buggy (hundreds of Bad encrypted message messages flooding group chats, messages delivered hours late and all at once, poor performance etc.) My group naturally gravitated towards Keybase as our secure messaging platform. The other killer feature was KBFS, which was a sort of shared encrypted filesystem with which you could sync files securely across all of your devices, share files publicly or with specific users or sets of users or groups in cryptographically protected ways. The unintelligible foray into cryptocurrency with Lumens made very little sense to me, but apparently the coins I was gifted for free by Keybase are worth over 100 USD now. I'll probably hold on to them.
- timerol 6y ago
  FYI, if you want to liquidate those, AnchorUSD makes it really easy to transfer them out to a US bank account.
  - andrewnicolalde 6y ago
    Thanks for the heads up :)
monadic2 6y ago
I use the keybase git repo to store my dotfiles. It's quite nice but I'm moving to my own git server instead.
theshrike79 6y ago
For me Keybase was a place to collect my public internet profiles in one place, with cryptographic auth that it's actually me. All the chat, team, storage and crypto crap was just superfluous for me.
- noneeeed 6y ago
  As someone who occasionally needed to share secrets (auth keys etc) with colleagues, or encrypt the odd file, it was really useful, it made all those things a lot easier. Unfortunatly all that extra stuff they piled on top seems to have distracted from just making the basics great.