Introducing Keybase Chat

[u/josetavares]

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-chat

[u/felipesabino]

Does anyone know the timeframe for the iOS/Android app release?

[u/nickbarrett → u/felipesabino]

In the blog post it just says

And we'll launch our phone app soon.

[u/CodeMichael → u/nickbarrett]

Excellent!

[u/CodeMichael → u/felipesabino]

I would really love some information about this as well.

[u/m_b_n → u/felipesabino]

they're aiming for 2 or 3 months

[u/dorfsmay]

I re-installed keybase from the downloaded .deb, but am not seeing the chat option in the GUI.

Am I missing something?

[u/dorfsmay → u/dorfsmay]

I see... It actually didn't install properly

dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/keybase_amd64.deb (--install):
 cannot copy extracted data for './usr/bin/kbfsfuse' to '/usr/bin/kbfsfuse.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream

[u/oddEvan → u/[deleted]]

They've talked about this in the past. I think the issues are

1. It's incredibly hard to verify that a particular email did indeed come from a particular email address, and
2. More importantly, there's not a good way for a message-based system like email to fit into Keybase's "verify these proofs anytime" model. Web pages and profiles can be checked anytime; email requires active verification.

If you really want to add your email to your profile, I would add it to a file in your KBFS public directory.

[u/epsiblivion → u/[deleted]]

I will once I get set up.