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I really like Keybase. I don't even use it much but if I had the choice of paying a few dollars per month or having it be shut down, I'd pay for sure. Maybe it

I really like Keybase. I don't even use it much but if I had the choice of paying a few dollars per month or having it be shut down, I'd pay for sure. Maybe it's because development slowed down to a crawl but it has such an "old internet" feel to it. Like I'm using Kazaa or something. Edit: To clarify, I understand that Keybase is not shutting down. I'm just saying hypothetically if it shuts down, which isn't unlikely in the next few years.

vel0city 4y ago
From what I understand, Keybase will continue to exist and KBFS will even still keep the files. They just won't be publicly hosting those files as websites anymore.
- soulofmischief 4y ago
  To further clarify, Keybase Sites based hosting should still work as far as I understand. I don't use keybase.pub and I'm a hardcore Keybase user, so I imagine most don't. You can still get hosting through Keybase Sites. EDIT: No, I'm probably wrong. https://book.keybase.io/sites https://book.keybase.io/sites
  - bluehatbrit 4y ago
    Are you sure about that? It's under the keybase.pub domain name according to the docs you linked. I would have thought that means it's going as well.
    - soulofmischief 4y ago
      I'm not sure, and under further investigation you might be right.
oefrha 4y ago
For commenters who can’t be bothered to RTFA, and is somewhat confused because the Keybase name is used for a couple of not terribly related (on the surface) products: keybase.io the popular identity hosting service isn’t going anywhere, what is being shut down is an unpopular file hosting service: > Although the service was a great showcase for the kinds of cool things that could be built with Keybase, the usage of this product never took off.
- capableweb 4y ago
  > what is being shut down is an unpopular file hosting service Maybe unclear wording here, but to clarify: KBFS (Keybase FileSystem) is not being shut down, only Keybase.pub is, which is a service which exposes selected files from KBFS on the web. The file hosting (KBFSF) will still be a part of Keybase and remain working as-is.
  - sleepybrett 4y ago
    I'm just worried that it just gets chipped away to nothing. It's already in a state where a new platform, major os change, architecture change could kill the apps usability for me. It's just coasting now.
anigbrowl 4y ago
I like it too, but I stopped using it because of the user interface. I should check it again, but the text was so tiny and the dark mode so dark that more than one group I was in gave up and moved back to doing everything in Signal groups despite Keybase's technical superiority for many purposes. It's a great tool that was just tiring to use, an issue which has been PGP's Achilles heel since the outset.
chias 4y ago
> development slowed down to a crawl It's pretty wild that you can see exactly the moment when Zoom bought them on their github activity graph: https://github.com/keybase/client/graphs/code-frequency https://github.com/keybase/client/graphs/code-frequency

vel0city 4y ago

From what I understand, Keybase will continue to exist and KBFS will even still keep the files. They just won't be publicly hosting those files as websites anymore.

soulofmischief 4y ago
To further clarify, Keybase Sites based hosting should still work as far as I understand. I don't use keybase.pub and I'm a hardcore Keybase user, so I imagine most don't. You can still get hosting through Keybase Sites. EDIT: No, I'm probably wrong. https://book.keybase.io/sites https://book.keybase.io/sites
- bluehatbrit 4y ago
  Are you sure about that? It's under the keybase.pub domain name according to the docs you linked. I would have thought that means it's going as well.
  - soulofmischief 4y ago
    I'm not sure, and under further investigation you might be right.

oefrha 4y ago

For commenters who can’t be bothered to RTFA, and is somewhat confused because the Keybase name is used for a couple of not terribly related (on the surface) products: keybase.io the popular identity hosting service isn’t going anywhere, what is being shut down is an unpopular file hosting service: > Although the service was a great showcase for the kinds of cool things that could be built with Keybase, the usage of this product never took off.

capableweb 4y ago
> what is being shut down is an unpopular file hosting service Maybe unclear wording here, but to clarify: KBFS (Keybase FileSystem) is not being shut down, only Keybase.pub is, which is a service which exposes selected files from KBFS on the web. The file hosting (KBFSF) will still be a part of Keybase and remain working as-is.
- sleepybrett 4y ago
  I'm just worried that it just gets chipped away to nothing. It's already in a state where a new platform, major os change, architecture change could kill the apps usability for me. It's just coasting now.

anigbrowl 4y ago

I like it too, but I stopped using it because of the user interface. I should check it again, but the text was so tiny and the dark mode so dark that more than one group I was in gave up and moved back to doing everything in Signal groups despite Keybase's technical superiority for many purposes. It's a great tool that was just tiring to use, an issue which has been PGP's Achilles heel since the outset.

chias 4y ago

> development slowed down to a crawl It's pretty wild that you can see exactly the moment when Zoom bought them on their github activity graph: https://github.com/keybase/client/graphs/code-frequency https://github.com/keybase/client/graphs/code-frequency