If they'd been willing to take customer money for some of the things, they could've afforded to work on those kinds of enhancements. And that's just one possible UX improvement. Or KBFS + textastic.īut I had to open the files inside a plaintext viewer inside the Keybase app. Being able to pair something like beorg + KBFS would've been very convenient. I had been keeping a lot of org files in KBFS (still have them there, but backed up to other locations). If Keybase had done that for KBFS, it would've been fantastic for me. Dropbox and others expose their contents to other applications on mobile OSes. Additionally, it didn't integrate well with other environments (especially mobile) and applications. I would've spent $xx/month or year for some of the capabilities or increased storage in KBFS. I feel like Keybase missed a lot of money prior the acquihire. I couldn't get anyone in my circle interested in it so there wasn't a lot of value for me. I moved the encrypted git repos to private GitHub repos, which was fine for what I was doing. I still use KBFS, but I don't use the other features as much anymore. Not sure what happened, and AFAIK there was no announcement or anything.) (I was afraid that happened the other day, when Keybase Git stopped working and git push operations were failing, but it came back up. I think it is highly likely that bits will gradually stop working and won't get fixed, and/or Zoom will pull the plug. It is pretty hard to recommend Keybase at this point, though - never fully open sourced, and complete radio silence since the "we've been acquired" blog post. I really liked Keybase, especially toward the end when the performance problems on mobile with sharing images and basic stuff like that were mostly fixed, and the apps started to show a higher degree of polish. The crypto wallet part is well-covered by existing apps. I use Syncthing to share sets of files across my own machines, and it works well for that. I didn't really use the "secure file sharing between arbitrary people" feature, but I don't know of anything as easy if you did want to do that. I had to move that git hosting to a server I now have to manage, ugh. I set my dad's company up storing their business documents in git backed by Keybase git instead of GitHub.
I really miss Keybase Git, which was a brilliant idea that I haven't seen anybody else do. Most of my friends can't be bothered to get it set up and working, either.
The bot story isn't anywhere close to as good as it was with Keybase.
A typical HN reader can probably make it work, and deal with all the bugs and issues, but a "normal" person not so much. I am rooting for them, but getting regular people (like my dad and sister) onboarded is super hard. The Keybase backend was never open-sourced and there doesn't seem like a viable path forward for Keybase without the founders.Īt the same time, doesn't seem to be any other single solution for the range of things Keybase did.įor secure E2EE chat, I moved to Matrix/Element and it was extremely painful. Like a lot of people, I stopped using it when the Zoom acquihire was announced.
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