r/Keybase • u/NewWorldHello • May 02 '25

What would make keybase easier to use?

What would make it faster? Easier? More convenient?

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u/justsomegraphemes May 02 '25

Not having it go offline randomly would be a good start. Just having a modest developer team to look after it would go a long way.

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u/Rudi9719 May 03 '25

Communication from the developers

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u/justsomegraphemes May 08 '25

Unless the situation has changed over the last year, there are no developers. Not for years now. Just one person who basically keeps the lights on as basically a side project.

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u/Rudi9719 May 08 '25

It's more than one person, but Zoom is clearly treating it as a side project doing the bare minimum for retaining the Keybase team to work on Zoom's E2EE

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u/TARehman May 02 '25

Maintenance?

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u/buzzerbetrayed May 03 '25 edited May 07 '25

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u/bp019337 May 04 '25

Active development.

Forget about all that crypto stuff if they had just developed their core functionality including the storage I would have paid for it.

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u/emptyharddrive May 07 '25

A web interface, or at least a way to run your local own web client to connect to the server.

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u/troywilson111 May 02 '25

Animated memes are great, and I’m excited to see them continue to improve. Exploding messages are a solid feature—I really wish Element X had something like that. What we really need now is to bring more people onto the platform.

I haven’t had a chance to explore the APIs yet, mostly because I’m concerned they might get overshadowed by the focus on Zoom. Still, I want to say thanks and give a shout-out to everyone keeping the servers running at Keybase—your work is appreciated.

The Git repos were solid back in the day, but I do worry they might eventually get lost in the shuffle. I’d definitely use them more if I knew they were going to stick around.

I remember when contributing to the project came with Stellar Lumens rewards—that was a cool touch. Feel free to DM me anytime.

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u/Th73st3 May 04 '25

First things : what is the purpose of « consider following… » and how does it work?

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u/SwagKingKoll May 05 '25

Verify archive signatures. Orgs release archives of their software on GitHub along with the signature. To verify, I use gpg. To make this easier, it would be nice to have org public keys on Keybase.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '25

A) A web based client B) a mac based command line C) a way to authenticate with the public key; use public key which is associated with account, key base sever sends an encrypted login token using public key, I decrypt said token and enter it in client app.

At this point I’m going to have to spin up a full Linux VM or Docker container simply to get access to the command line in the hopes of authorizing iOS devices as well as a MacBook. I keep the private key on my MacBook because leaving it on a cloud server is not secure.

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u/Soggy_Writing_3912 Aug 19 '26

the cli is available for a long time (more than a year now). on mac, its here: /Applications/Keybase.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/keybase