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After a quick review of the KeePassX website: * The screenshots are from 2003 era software (XP & Mac OS X 10.3) * The requirements page says "Qt Library >= 4.
by SyneRyder 11y ago
After a quick review of the KeePassX website:
* The screenshots are from 2003 era software (XP & Mac OS X 10.3)
* The requirements page says "Qt Library >= 4.3". Does that come with Windows?
* The downloads page doesn't specify if it work on Windows 8 or newer, or Yosemite / El Capitan for Mac.
* The website appears to be running an outdated and exploitable version of Wordpress, and is broadcasting its version number in the site source code.
And an actual quote from their support forums:
"I've got to say this is the deadest forum I have ever joined. There's so little help here that I'll advise anyone who can't figure things out for themselves to pay-to-play one of the bigger, commercial password managers. I'm done here - I don't see any reason to return."
This is common to a lot of open source projects. A product is not just the code, it's about usability, building trust, educating users, explaining things in a way they understand, and providing timely & friendly & helpful customer support. Code is barely 10% of a product. People pay for software because they want a job done well, and they don't want to spend more time than necessary on it.
- raz32dust 11y agoYea, the general public would not use it. But from the HN standpoint, I think it is a good open source alternative. They are working on version 2.0 and the git repo is reasonably active. (https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx/commits/master https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx/commits/master)