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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 5 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.273s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
1. kumavis ◴[12 Oct 25 05:46 UTC] No.45555604[source]▶
Keybase <3
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2. cymor ◴[12 Oct 25 16:24 UTC] No.45559405[source]▶
Take a look at FOKS. Made by the people who made Keybase.

https://foks.pub/

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3. Avamander ◴[13 Oct 25 22:14 UTC] No.45573900[source]▶
Funny thing is, I still use it.

It might be _the_ fastest chat platform right now. Other things like Whatsapp, Messenger, Telegram, Signal, Matrix/Element, Discord, Slack, Rocket Chat, Mattermost (and all the platforms that implement some kind of a chat by now), are all significantly slower. Sending messages takes longer, UI is slower, everything is slower somehow. The only exception that I know of being IRC.

It also allowed tree-shaped groups, you can nest as many as you like depending on your needs. It's so handy compared to the limited server/channel/thread logic elsewhere.

I will miss it dearly once they shut it down.

4. Avamander ◴[13 Oct 25 22:16 UTC] No.45573925[source]▶
Very interesting, unfortunately their blog has no RSS feed :D
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5. francou ◴[15 Oct 25 09:03 UTC] No.45589805{3}[source]▶
https://blog.foks.pub/index.xml