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Keybase Go Library, Client, Service, OS X, iOS, Android, Electron
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Add option to disable/discourage chat for a profile. #9059

Open kevincox opened 7 years ago

kevincox commented 7 years ago

Hello, I signed up for keybase a long time ago. I liked the idea of verifying different profiles and enjoy many of the new features you have been offering.

However I have no intention using Keybase Chat, however not only is this button visible on my profile, but if someone who has the extension installed browses different sites they are encouraged to send me a message I will never read. This is a real shame, as I would prefer they select some other communication method that I have provided so that they get a response.

I don't want to delete my keybase account in order to remove this button, so please allow users some way to indicate that they don't wish to use Keybase chat. Ideally this would remove links from other websites and make it obvious on my keybase profile that messages will likely not get read.

ghost commented 6 years ago

@kevincox Spot on. It's a very aggravating problem. Users are effectively forced to participate to an extent dictated by this centralized service (the same kind of shenanigans we see with linkedin-types of social networking platforms). It's also important to consider this uncontrollable chat button in light of bug https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/9469 (reported by @guycfm) where senders get no feedback or indication of whether their message was blackholed.

serious bug Some will consider your bug report a feature request, but let's be clear: nothing can be more broken in a communication system than the silent blackholing of messages that were manually written by a human. This bug should be treated with top priority.

The problem is further exacerbated by the year-old bug https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/3869 from @zander, which elaborates on the untrustworthyness of the daemon, thus giving cause to users being unable to receive chat messages.

dbrgn commented 6 years ago

I have the same issue. I received chat messages through Keybase in the past, but have no intentions of installing the application. This means that the chat button essentially results in a communication black hole.

Please add an option to remove the button from my profile or even to completely disable the chat. I love Keybase for its key verification approach, but don't want to use it for chatting.

The same counts for the company I work at, who uses Keybase for key verification but - especially since Threema itself is a messenger - has no intentions of using Keybase to chat.

casey commented 5 years ago

Keybase doesn't provide a way to opt out of:

I don't want any of these things.

frankf1957 commented 4 years ago

Hello, I signed up for keybase today. Please provide a way for me to disable all chat. I do not wish to be contacted via chat by anyone on the keybase platform.