In this post we would like to update everyone about discontinuation of SteemConnect.
It has been incredible few years serving all users and dapps on Steem, but now that we have migrated to Hive as Hivesigner. It is time to focus our time and effort making Hivesigner the best authentication service, it can be on Hive.
Sunset date
We are setting a date to stop SteemConnect services on 1st June, 2020.
We kindly request all Dapp developers to plan and inform their users about changes.
Migration options
We will actively be improving Hivesigner and encourage developers to build on Hive. But if for some reason you want to stay on Steem, please migrate to some other fork of SteemConnect - for example SteemLogin. We are not in any way connected with any forks, as always do your own research, audit and security of new forks.
Hivesigner development
For all new developers, visitors, SteemConnect will be redirecting everyone to Hivesigner homepage and help them get started with development on Hive. We will be adding FAQ and more detailed documentation on How to integrate Hivesigner to your website, How to authenticate with Hivesigner extension, How to sign transactions securely, etc. We have published roadmap and proposal to support continuous development of the project. Please read more about it here and support our effort bringing secure and social authentication to the masses.
- Vote for Hivesigner Proposal
- Github: ledgerconnect/hivesigner
- Discord support: https://discord.gg/pNJn7wh
- Email:
hello@hivesigner.com
I actually was unable to use SC to manage my wallet on STEEM yesterday. I thought it was already discontinued. Not sure what problem I was having, but good to hear your Hive Signer is taking it's place on the decentralized community version of the chain. Thanks for all you do.
Im new user, I tried 3 times to create an account on steem, but no success and i dont know the reason, now i'm happy by joining hive community and i hope to get pleasure time
I also hope you get pleasure time, human.
I just hope the human uses their pleasure time to blog at least a little bit. The wall is empty.
With a reputation of 10 I suspect you should not pass judgement.
Placing trust in a fictitious manipulated number is judgement. I was simply stating a hope.
thank you
Which app were you using SC with?
Steampeak wallet
I would suggest to reach out steempeak support and see if they find a bug.
Steemconnect stopped working for me on multiple dapps more than a week ago now.
June 1st is generous. Think Steem will still be functional by then?
It should be enough time for people to move most of their funds out and perform critical operations while they can.
Another nail in the coffin for steem
Its a good initiative in my humble opinion. Its a good security measure
:( Why can't you just freeze development on Steemit or turn it over to someone else?
We did just that freeze the development on SteemConnect. And focusing on Hivesigner.
Good job as always
Noted!
Looking forward for improved version on #hive :)
Glad you are focusing your attention over here on Hive! The latest developments on Steem suggests it has pretty much become (at best) a rudderless ship...
would there be any app like steemify for Hive?
Esteem and many apps already offer notifications.
löl im imagining the looks on their faces when one day to the next this vital steem tool is gone :P
I didn't know that you worked on this, as well. Terrific work. HiveSigner looks pretty solid already!
SteemLogin seems like a step back, though. They'll need to step up their game to keep up with your developments. 🤣
Great to hear about it. At least but steemconnent will be missed
Great to hear about it. At least but steemconnent will be missed
Always on the right track. All info noted. Thanks for doing things right.
poa. this will make waves.
!giohy very intelligent
The opening page of HiveSigner.com says: "Hivesigner neither store nor has access to your private keys."
You probably should change it to "Hivesigner neither stores nor has access to your private keys."
I wish you maintained services for both platforms. However, I realize that trying to do so would create a mess. At the time of the hardfork, everyone had the same credentials on both platforms. But these credentials will rapidly diverge.
Thank you for the suggestion, will fix that.
Before you shudder it, can you make an easy page for people to click once remove all their posting authorities they configured via Steemconnect?
And thank you for this great service.
There is
https://steemconnect.com/revoke/usernamepage to revoke authorities. Ultimately, it would be best if dapps revoke themselves during migration so that users don't have to hassle.I’ve always been confused why the home page doesn’t have these urls clear for everyone? I just recently saw a post and it said you had to go through (manually) each app (which I did). Is there somewhere obvious on the site where URLs like this are described? Thanks for the response.
That's what we will be working on. There are a lot unconnected dots, goal is to connect them. Please take a look at proposal and roadmap linked at the bottom of that post. https://esteem.app/hive/@good-karma/hivesigner-ongoing-development-and-improvement
How can I find the list of the dapps that are using my keys ?
For steem go to
https://steempeak.com/@clixmoney/permissions
For Hive go to
https://peakd.com/@clixmoney/permissions
Then click on authorities
Thanks.
Whoa ! #steem is looking weird everyday.
Hum!
The biggest problem I've encountered is related to actifit login. Actifit is divided into HIVE and Steem and steemconnect does not work. You must manually enter your username and password.
Thank you for the information. I'm still currently using steem connect but i'll stop using it soon until I figure out what to do with my wallet.
Pulling the plug on SteemConnect on June 1, 2020
Thanks for letting us know about the changes, alternatives and replacement tools! @good-karma
Anyone reading this, I suggest reading through the comments for some excellent information and links.
Upv and RSD🐝💫
Great work, I knew we have some security concerns on SteemConnect like it was saving the tokens on the system. Using HiveSinger are we targeting these securities as well?
Could you elaborate? I wasn't involved in past discussions or issue reports of SteemConnect, will ask @fabien if there was any security concerns or reports.
I am not a hundred percent sure if it's a SteemConncet issue or a Dapp issue that has coded it like it. What happens when the authentication token gets generated, they were storing that token. Now the issue is, if someone will have access to that system can get all the tokens which will be a security lapse.
Authentication tokens are security feature of Hivesigner, it provides apps ability to perform actions with your consent. These has expiry time and easily invalidated in case of breach. If breach happens none of the web applications are safe anyway.
That's one of the reasons Esteem focused on standalone desktop and mobile applications which gives user security they deserve without relying on any third party websites.
Off topic:
I can not post using esteem.
I heard esteem migrated to hive chain, but when I open app it looks like its giving me notifications mixing both of the chains. And I can not post with esteem. When I tap on that publish button it does nothing.
Then I signed in to my account using hivesigner and tried posting sill no luck.
Am I only facing this problem or esteem is not working right now when it comes to make a post??
Are you using latest version? Please try standard login, instead of hivesigner for now. We have found one bug with hivesigner, fix is coming out soon.
Ok I'll try again and let you know.
I've got a bit of a problem hanging over one of my accounts. Steemconnect has owner authority over my @steemtaskr account. This was probably a hangover from how I originally set up my steemconnect app. How do I go about getting rid of that authority?
I think that since the permission and the threshold is set to 50% you can use the owner key of the account to remove the authorities from the steemconnect account.
https://steeemconnect.com/revoke/steemtaskrThat only revokes steemtaskr posting authorities, not steemconnect owner authority.
Steemconnect doesn't have owner authority of users.
Check here: https://steemd.com/@revo
You have allowed posting authority to some apps only, steemconnect doesn't have any authority or permission to your account.
I believe we are talking on discord. I'll continue this there.
Thank you for all the development work you do to make Hive an even better place to be!
Glad to be informed about the sunset date
;(
So that will leave pretty much only Steemit.com and Steemworld on the Steem blockchain.
Steemworld also used/uses SteemConnect if I remember correctly.
Is Steem Keychain connected to SteemConnect? I use Steem Keychain with my browser.
No, Steem Keychain and SteemConnect is not related, separate tools/services.
Thanks!
I'm discovering new things on Hive everyday. Thanks for the info. Best wishes on the migration @good-karma.
Somebody help me.
I need Hive. Please give me Hive.
https://hive.blog/hive/@bencana0523/please-give-me-my-hive
@darthknight
@blocktrades
@alpha
WHO IS @darthknight...??
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