Keybase.pub Shutting Down on March 1 2023

I really like Keybase. I don&#x27;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&#x27;d pay for sure.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s because development slowed down to a crawl but it has such an &quot;old internet&quot; feel to it. Like I&#x27;m using Kazaa or something.<p>Edit: To clarify, I understand that Keybase is not shutting down. I&#x27;m just saying hypothetically if it shuts down, which isn&#x27;t unlikely in the next few years.

All of these complaints in the comments... Not realizing the diplomacy probably involved in keybase.pub being the only real hit Keybase takes in this round of layoffs. I would take this as a glimmer of hope that the folk at Zoom still appreciate Keybase for the same reason they bought it.

I&#x27;m honestly surprised that keybase is still around. It&#x27;s really cool what they&#x27;ve built, but how exactly are they keeping the lights on?

I still use Keybase and KBFS daily. It sounds like those services are around to stay -- but I hope if Zoom ever decides they don&#x27;t want to keep running them anymore they spin it off to a non-profit to keep it running.

FTA:<p>It&#x27;s just the keybase.pub web hosting service per se that&#x27;s shutting down.<p>&gt; &quot;No Keybase Filesystem (KBFS) data will be removed from any user public folders. All data will remain safe and viewable by others running Keybase. Other features of Keybase including Chat, KBFS, Teams, Git, Wallet and others will continue to run normally as well.&quot;

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keyoxide.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keyoxide.org&#x2F;</a> might grow into an alternative. It&#x27;s still missing some convenience features, but the foundation looks sane.

This is a shame, Keybase&#x27;s future is looking increasingly rocky. Has anyone got alternatives for team-based secrets sharing in an open-source project?<p>Github secrets is one place but that&#x27;s a one-way, write-only street.

I think I&#x27;d be happier if Keybase and Zoom would publicly commit to a direction for Keybase. I don&#x27;t know what the acquisition details were for the OKCupid alumni but this dance of slow and no updates makes Keybase a risk when it comes to it&#x27;s prospective usefulness in the future.<p>I am glad it&#x27;s just keybase.pub that&#x27;s affected atm.

KBFS was awesome for a small startup I worked at where we just needed some quick and dirty shared filesystems for development document sharing, quick scripts etc. Our onboarding for new folks used to be as simple as install your favorite distro, install keybase, run the onboarding script at $kbfsMountPoint and go get some coffee.

I&#x27;m a daily keybase user, and I didn&#x27;t even know keybase.pub existed.

I didn&#x27;t know this exists. If I know this earlier, I have used it. Anyways, there&#x27;s Github or IPFS.

Exactly as suspected. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34696606" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34696606</a>

I&#x27;m glad encrypted git is still running although its days are probably also numbered :(

Related: <i>Open source the server components of Keybase</i> (GitHub issue, 147 comments)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keybase&#x2F;client&#x2F;issues&#x2F;24105">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keybase&#x2F;client&#x2F;issues&#x2F;24105</a>

Keybase is the only chat client I would pay for without hesitation.

Keybase (the chat app) was hot for a while. However, everyone I know switched to Signal the day after Zoom acquired it. It&#x27;s basically a ghost town now. ;(

Incredibly short notice. That feels like a sign of panic.

Keybase was really nice, until it started talking about wallets and coins and Stellar Lumens and no thank you. I jumped ship a while ago.

Olympus

are there any alternatives ?

Sucks.

I am, honestly, really upset at this. I understand there was no guarantee that it would be up for any length of time, but it was a really convenient solution to a problem we had. I guess we have to find a different place for our passwords database that can be accessed over unauthenticated HTTP, but still very easily updated&#x2F;accessed from any of our computers (without requiring manual uploads&#x2F;transfers like with FTP).<p>-Emily

What a waste. There&#x27;s a real need for identified users on the Internet - a service that other companies can subscribe to verify all sorts of users actions.<p>I thought this would be it but they never seemed to see themselves as fulfilling that role, despite from the outside it looked like that was their big opportunity.