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Comment by jqueryin | Hacker News Reader

For those of you not on Keybase yet, here's the most important piece of information in the post:

"To qualify: you must have a Keybase account registered before this announcement OR if you're new to Keybase, you must connect your Keybase account to a GitHub or HackerNews account that was registered before this announcement. This is to prevent bot signups to Keybase."

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It fails to mention that Github and HN accounts must be older than January 1, 2017. This is what I saw in the app when I tried to join the airdrop: https://i.imgur.com/ZOZ1rB7.png

I hope that's an accidental omission and not an intentional dark pattern.

Not a dark pattern, an accidental leftover string from our testing. Any account registered before today qualifies. I'll deploy a fix to that shortly. Update: deployed, although you may need to restart your app to update the text.

Sucks you had the sign up date prior to the announcement. When I read the announcement I immediately signed up for a keybase, HN and Github account and then find out I cant be included because I signed up on 9/9/2019. You would think that would be the incentive to at least give a little buffer for people to join in that were not aware.

It let me sign up with this new HN account, but I'm also getting the 3 devices block.

You can generate paper keys in the mobile app. They count towards the device count.

Please don’t use code blocks for quotes on HN: https://i.imgur.com/N2dSjAI.jpg

Sorry, fixed.

No worries at all!

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