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Stopped using Keybase after installing the windows graphical interface and it became increasingly intrusive to my daily workflow. I only login to keybase to obtain secrets from co-workers. If you don't login to keybase, quitting the interface on windows is extremely annoying and embedded deep in a custom right click interface.

Then, once it has been quit, after some time it will randomly start again asking you to sign in jarring you from whatever your current focus is on.

I've uninstalled it completely and moved on, very sad because I had high hopes.

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Agreed. I misplaced my key for a bit, and it would prompt me for my password randomly after I clicked 'cancel'. Like, half hour later, prompt again. Adding on to that, you can't right click the taskbar icon to quit, you have to open it up, and go through a bespoke menu to exit.

That on top of the general sluggishness and bugs (kept telling me that HN could not be verified even though it had, and was according to the website.

It just feels so sloppy :/

I think this had only happened once to me, but I rarely sign out or close Keybase so I wouldn't be one to experience it frequently.

Are you sure you are quitting the program and not closing the program? Many programs nowadays continue to run in the background after clicking close but do not actually quit the program, seemingly confusing the close button with the minimize button. I think Keybase does this but I'm not home to test.

Most of the programs I'm aware of that do this terrible behavior are chat programs (Discord, Slack, maybe Keybase, maybe Teamspeak, Skype, etc.) and on most of these it can be disabled in the settings somewhere to actually quit the program when you close it.

Yes, quitting the application completely, closing it just minimizes to the taskbar context menu, from there you can right click, the custom interface shows, click the hamburger menu, click quit. I completely quit every time for it to randomly start afterwards.

I'm a big fan of Keybase overall, but I share the annoyance of intrusive notifications. I don't really need to see a popup window of all users that pertain to my keybasefs folder every time I access it. Also, I've noticed keybasefs can be quite slow sometimes.

But these are minor annoyances in the context of a great product.

Thanks for the feedback! We've recently implemented some pretty big performance improvements in the filesystem, including prefetching files, caching them encrypted to your local disk, and journaling for writes (allowing us to sync them over some period rather than blocking on your network connection). If you're still experiencing poor performance in the filesystem, please file a ticket on github.com/keybase/kbfs or contact me on Keybase chat (keybase.io/jzila).

Just sent you some feedback using the extension :)

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