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I'm a free Bitwarden user, I don't plan to self-host stuff, and... honestly I have no idea what this person is going on about. And "Aside from the aforemention

I'm a free Bitwarden user, I don't plan to self-host stuff, and... honestly I have no idea what this person is going on about. And "Aside from the aforementioned technical details, Bitwarden is (and has always been) one of the subjectively worst applications on my phones and my desktop in terms of user interface. " Really!!? How many apps has this person used?

muppetman 5mo ago
I love Bitwarden and use it every day, but I pretty much also agree with his post. I have Bitwarden for personal stuff and 1password for my, and the 1password experience is night and day better. It's just so good, it always works. Bitwarden sometimes (especially on Android) will just not autofill. On my PC sometimes it won't recognise the domain correctly even though I've got an entry set for "base domain" etc. I am ALWAYS fighting with it to get my passwords out. Look at the Bitwarden Reddit its full of similar complaints. Of course the price between 1pass and Bitwarden reflects why 1pass is so much better. And you don't really realise how clunky BitWarden is if it's all you use, until you also have to use some other password manager.
- chrisandchris 5mo ago
  And I could tell you the opposite about 1Password. About half of the time, the extension does not realize ond which domain it is and autofill is broken. To each their own (bugs).
  - muppetman 5mo ago
    Fair point - I've had no issue with it but I certainly don't use it as much as I do Bitwarden.
- Rekindle8090 5mo ago
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- djyde 5mo ago
  The Bitwarden Chrome extension is really bad, which is also the reason I've never been able to switch from 1Password to Bitwarden.
  - muppetman 5mo ago
    Yes, it's terrible. It's where I landed when I migrated from Keepass though so I've stuck with it.
- grebc 5mo ago
  1Password user here and it regularly shits the bed with autofill or recognising a domain. Not to mention the absolutely garbage performance of the Windows desktop app.
mattbee 5mo ago
Er yeah same. I can believe it's a PITA to self-host because why would they care to make it easy. It's open source, good luck. $10/year seems pretty fair to avoid all that. The clients are fine, could be smoother, but I've internalised the quirks by now.
0x3f 5mo ago
The Bitwarden UI/X changed relatively recently so that detail view is the default click action now, rather than fill. I don't think I've ever actually used the detail view, because the edit view does the same job. Never mind that 'fill' is 100x more common as an action. So why on earth is that not the default? It is indeed an unfathomably stupid UI decision, beyond what I regularly see in other apps that I use. I still hate it to this day, and find it incredibly clunky. In fact that alone is kind of making me want to give in and just use Apple.
- tenuousemphasis 5mo ago
  There's a setting to make the old behavior default.
  - 0x3f 5mo ago
    Yes (after user protest as I recall) but then the new UI just diverges over time, and quite possibly gets features not in the old one. I want the latest UI, and ideally the default UI, I just also want that not to be stupid. To be clear I don't even think I'm talking about taste here, although people did complain about that. I can't think of any good reason that 'fill' is not the default action on an app/extension whose core purpose is to fill things.

muppetman 5mo ago

I love Bitwarden and use it every day, but I pretty much also agree with his post. I have Bitwarden for personal stuff and 1password for my, and the 1password experience is night and day better. It's just so good, it always works. Bitwarden sometimes (especially on Android) will just not autofill. On my PC sometimes it won't recognise the domain correctly even though I've got an entry set for "base domain" etc. I am ALWAYS fighting with it to get my passwords out. Look at the Bitwarden Reddit its full of similar complaints. Of course the price between 1pass and Bitwarden reflects why 1pass is so much better. And you don't really realise how clunky BitWarden is if it's all you use, until you also have to use some other password manager.

chrisandchris 5mo ago
And I could tell you the opposite about 1Password. About half of the time, the extension does not realize ond which domain it is and autofill is broken. To each their own (bugs).
- muppetman 5mo ago
  Fair point - I've had no issue with it but I certainly don't use it as much as I do Bitwarden.
Rekindle8090 5mo ago
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djyde 5mo ago
The Bitwarden Chrome extension is really bad, which is also the reason I've never been able to switch from 1Password to Bitwarden.
- muppetman 5mo ago
  Yes, it's terrible. It's where I landed when I migrated from Keepass though so I've stuck with it.
grebc 5mo ago
1Password user here and it regularly shits the bed with autofill or recognising a domain. Not to mention the absolutely garbage performance of the Windows desktop app.

mattbee 5mo ago

Er yeah same. I can believe it's a PITA to self-host because why would they care to make it easy. It's open source, good luck. $10/year seems pretty fair to avoid all that. The clients are fine, could be smoother, but I've internalised the quirks by now.

0x3f 5mo ago

The Bitwarden UI/X changed relatively recently so that detail view is the default click action now, rather than fill. I don't think I've ever actually used the detail view, because the edit view does the same job. Never mind that 'fill' is 100x more common as an action. So why on earth is that not the default? It is indeed an unfathomably stupid UI decision, beyond what I regularly see in other apps that I use. I still hate it to this day, and find it incredibly clunky. In fact that alone is kind of making me want to give in and just use Apple.

tenuousemphasis 5mo ago
There's a setting to make the old behavior default.
- 0x3f 5mo ago
  Yes (after user protest as I recall) but then the new UI just diverges over time, and quite possibly gets features not in the old one. I want the latest UI, and ideally the default UI, I just also want that not to be stupid. To be clear I don't even think I'm talking about taste here, although people did complain about that. I can't think of any good reason that 'fill' is not the default action on an app/extension whose core purpose is to fill things.