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Introducing Keybase Chat

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Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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This looks great, but if you want this to work, you need Android and iOS support. When is that going to happen? Is that going to happen?

> When our mobile apps launches, your phone will be a great device for provisioning and chatting.

Apparently it is coming.

Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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post #53

What is this paper key? I don't want a paper key! Now I have to write this and keep it in my pocket? No!

It's a backup key in case you lose access to all your other devices.

That way, you don't have to rekey all your services if you lose it and access to all your devices, like I did.

Protip: Use the paper key. Keep it safe. You never know when you'll have to use it.

Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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Hey malgorithms, this is great! I check the Keybase website every month or so for updates and discovered yesterday that there's a new logo, replacing the old thieving dog/ferret/raccoon with what appears to be a person's head with their hair in a bun holding a key. Can you give some background on the thinking behind this logo redesign? (Sorry it's not a question about chat, per say)

we knew we needed a logo redesign no matter what; the old didn't scale well. The new one looks good at small sizes - say in a menubar or as a small icon. Of course that's just an opinion, but our team is happy with it. In old displays (think 72dpi), our new one isn't perfect, but most devices in the future will be high dpi.

As for brand messaging: the thieving kangarooster was suggestive of spy-like activity, which was playful but many people thought it sent the wrong message.

I personally like the message of the key in the hair...I mean I haven't thought it through in some deep way, but it's sort of like seeing a pencil in someone's hair: it's suggestive about their personality, and a pencil is an easy-to-use tool. A key in there feels good like that, like you can just grab it and use it easily. But that's just my own personal, previously unshared, take on why I like it.

Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

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OP here! I had to trim the post down for brevity, but I thought the HN community in particular might be interested in the API side of things. Undocumented in the post: you can invent channels for app-to-app communication from the JSON API. For example, it's possible with Keybase chat to have a program posting encrypted messages for another person or program, without cluttering up the visual chat interface. Also - to…

Just installed and it's still asking me for an invite code on the Fedora RPM.

Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

#68

OP here! I had to trim the post down for brevity, but I thought the HN community in particular might be interested in the API side of things. Undocumented in the post: you can invent channels for app-to-app communication from the JSON API. For example, it's possible with Keybase chat to have a program posting encrypted messages for another person or program, without cluttering up the visual chat interface. Also - to…

Just installed and it's still asking me for an invite code on the Fedora RPM.

Could you file an issue over at https://github.com/keybase/client/issues and tag @oconnor663 in it please? And maybe include the output of `keybase --version`?

Re: Introducing Keybase Chat

#69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just installed and it's still asking me for an invite code on the Fedora RPM.

Could you file an issue over at https://github.com/keybase/client/issues and tag @oconnor663 in it please? And maybe include the output of `keybase --version`?

Done.
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