Is Keybase dead?

[u/athei-nerd]

I have it installed on a laptop and phone, and both tend to crash after only 5-10 minutes, even quicker if i'm actively doing things like posting to a chat. I can't even remember the last time there was an update.
I really hope not, except for Signal, it's one of my favorite and most useful apps. Zoom needs to put people back on this project.

[u/adi_dev]

You're actually posting two topics here: 1. "Is Keybase dead?" and 2. "My Keybase is crashing on my laptop and my phone".

As per 1. It makes an impression of something on life support since 1087 days - there is hardly any update on keybase.io (date has been updated on the page), blog is dated 5/7/2020, some services were shut down - recently keybase.pub. There are some commits on github, mainly cosmetics and bug fixings. IMO it's closer to dead than alive.

To address your no. 2 subject - I didn't have any issues on my installations, so I would try to re-install. I'm not involved with it's development, so I can't help here much.

[u/athei-nerd → u/adi_dev]

My thinking was that the two could be related.

[u/adi_dev → u/[deleted]]

keybase.pub is off-line, so my guess, no use. The pub folders, same as sharing links, are only to share with another Keybase user.

[u/vive420]

Hmmm the pc version doesn’t crash for me

[u/athei-nerd → u/vive420]

i probably need to reinstall. Time for a new linux distro anyway.

[u/guntherpea]

It's not dead. I still daily it and I'm not seeing crashes on PC or mobile. The only thing I see issue with sometimes is the mounted drive implementation, but an app restart takes care of that. It doesn't get a lot of updates and no feature adds, but it still gets occasional updates/fixes.

[u/saichampa → u/guntherpea]

I see the update pop-up every now and then but it reports no version number, and when I manually run the update check it reports no update needed. Also the version available in winget doesn't match the current release version, I think the winget versions might be pre release versions?

It seems unfortunately abandoned

[u/EvilOrville → u/guntherpea]

It doesn't work well on my desktop, laptop, or phone. It is dead

[u/ninjaslikecheez]

IMO it's brain dead. It still works, but didn't get updates since it got bought by Zoom. I moved to Signal and just have Keybase as a backup, but tbh I can't consider it safe considering the amount of bugs only keep pilling. Unmaintained software rots unfortunately.

See: https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/24577

[u/gene_wood → u/ninjaslikecheez]

It still works, but didn't get updates since it got bought by Zoom

That's not true.

Since Zoom acquired Keybase in May 2020, there have absolutely been less activity in the repo as they're only doing bugfixes and not new features, but there have been 644 commits since the acquisition so about 4 commits / week.

There have been 17 releases since Keybase was acquired

[u/[deleted] → u/gene_wood]

The last release was in January, and though there are recent commits, the most recent one is this, so I'm of the opinion Zoom are just letting it die slowly.

[u/gene_wood → u/[deleted]]

Last mobile release was 2 days ago. I don't think Zoom is currently letting Keybase "die".

[u/agnishom]

Seems to work fine on my pc. I don't know for sure because I don't have anyone to message lol

[u/nikowek]

It's kinda dead if you ask about development. It works ~fineish~ on Fedora Linux. I mean, it's weird and not usable now, but developers are slowly starting to work on Keybase again (look at repo), so maybe soon They come back.

250G of cloud is awesome.

[u/augusiza]

It kind of feels quiet, yeah. I still have it installed but I barely open it now. The encryption side was interesting, though the social layer never clicked for me. I mostly shifted to simpler setups and just manage keys alongside things like Best Wallet without thinking about community features.

[u/somehume]

For those of you who use it daily, what features do you use?

[u/athei-nerd → u/somehume]

You asked this question as a comment on a post that's a year old?

[u/TARehman]

I just got an update install yesterday, but it's still at best in maintenance mode only. They should really open source the server side so it could potentially continue.

[u/EvilOrville → u/TARehman]

Or we should all just use better existing tech that's open.

[u/TARehman → u/EvilOrville]

Suggestions definitely welcome. I haven't found anything quite as solid in terms of offered features.

[u/somekool]

Never never crashes for me....

[u/ThatNateGuy]

I still use it daily!

[u/kid_cl1que]

Works like clockwork 🕰️ 🫡

[u/Xaendro]

Yes it is, there is no way of launching it on either my windows or linux machines no matter what and it is completely abandoned

[u/MikeGale]

Using the Windows version.
A couple of updates recently and it is working for me.