Adding contacts in Graphite

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#1

Dear Blockstack community,

Been playing and working with Graphite for some time now and this weekend been trying to get it working for collaborating on a text document.
Somehow I’m not able to add contacts, neither by searching for username or ID.
Tried looking for my friends ID or username, nothing comes up; same when I run my ID on her machine.

We both use a Blockstack local instance and Brave browser (current version) on OSX (current version).

Anyone have had success with adding contacts in Graphite?

Any help or ideas are much appreciated!

Sincerely,
Dan

#2

Hey Dan,

I’m the creator of Graphite. Are searching only by username? The search api I’m using seems not to hit on username well anymore, but I’m not sure why. I need to do some testing, but it picks up the profile name or other profile info pretty well.

If you’re willing to share the ID you’re searching for, I can take a look at what’s going.

Best,
Justin

#3

Hello Justin!

thanks for taking your time to answer me!

The ID is the following:
ID-1H2JicapyGip9698Kgt1YPuBU1VYjgGLuE

Also searching for username doesn’t bring up anything.
Could it have to do with the local clients not syncing with the blockchain?..

Cheers,
Dan

#4

Thanks! I need some better messaging in the interface, but temp IDs do not have zonefiles and therefore cannot utilize the collaboration features of Graphite. That address does not have a username or a zonefile based on my query here:

https://explorer.blockstack.org/address/1H2JicapyGip9698Kgt1YPuBU1VYjgGLuE

Therefore, it is not available to find and add as a contact.

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#5

Ok so I need to register for a user name to access collaboration features, correct?

#6

That’s correct, but it may be smart to hold off a week or so. It looks like Blockstack is about to release the newest version of the Browser, which should have free name registrations.

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#7

Amazing, thanks for the valuable hint (:slight_smile:

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#8

Thanks.

I think it should be explicit on the web site that the collaborative features need a registered ID.

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#9

Hi, I’m also not able to add collaborators in Graphite. Nothing happens when I type on ID in the search field. The person with whom I collaborating has the same issue. Is it relating to having new accounts? Neither of us used real email addresses, for privacy, in case that’s related. I tried the user name I choose with by blockstack ID. I tried with and without the “.id.blockstack” appended. Tangentially, I also couldn’t login into this forum with my blockstack ID and password; I kept getting looped back to empty login fields.