Lisk Hub 0.8.0 — New Settings Page and Sign Message
It is our pleasure to announce the new and improved version of our Lisk desktop app — Lisk Hub 0.8.0. This release includes the following enhancements:
-New settings page
-Sign message via launch protocol
New settings page
Regarding settings, I believe that we need to limit complexity and provide reasonable defaults of Lisk Hub features to lower the entry barrier for users who are new to blockchain. However, we also have more experienced users who might have different needs.
Lisk Hub used to have a neat settings module in the menu. It worked fine with the few settings we currently have, even though it appeared to be somewhat difficult to navigate for some users. Some of the new features of Lisk Hub will also require more settings. For this reason, we created a dedicated settings page much better suited for scaling up the amount of settings in the upcoming releases.
Sign message via launch protocol
We believe that signing a message is quite an advanced feature of blockchain projects, which won’t be needed by most mainstream users we hope to attract. Since the time we communicated this to our community, we received a lot of feedback about why the feature is necessary in Lisk Hub.
In other cases with a rare feature like this, the solution could be found in a single-purpose tool built by someone from the community. But in this particular case, it is problematic because signing a message requires the secret passphrase of the user and we wouldn’t advise anyone to enter their passphrase into a random tool. Therefore, we need to have this feature available in Hub, though at the same time making sure it won’t get in the way of a novice user who has no idea what its purpose is.
We came to the conclusion that signing a message, in the vast majority of cases, is something that the user is asked to do by a third party. To support that use case, we decided to make signing messages possible via the Lisk launch protocol. This means that anyone can create a special link and share it with the recipient. When the recipient clicks on the link, it opens Lisk Hub on the “Sign message” page with a pre-filled message. The link can contain the message in standard URL encoding, e.g. lisk://sign-message?message=Here%20is%20the%20message. To keep Lisk Hub UI clean, there is no way to access the page from the UI without the link.
Vít Stanislav is a frontend developer for Lisk at Lightcurve and the project lead of Lisk Hub. Previously, he was developing web-based tools for Red Hat. He has plenty of additional frontend experience from developing online learning systems as a member of Adaptive Learning research group at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He is committed to making Lisk the blockchain technology with the best user experience.
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