Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by gjvc » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 9:29 AM UTC

Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
bitwarden.com

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by neon_me » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 9:38 AM UTC

Love Bitwarden, I personally onboarded dozen … but they must heavily invest in UI/UX and fix their apps (+ extensions) It’s not easy and intuitive for non-techies.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by Barrin92 » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 9:50 AM UTC

probably my favorite open source project in years, together with Lichess. No idea why people still throw money at proprietary password managers.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by skrebbel » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 10:07 AM UTC

neon_me wrote: post #2

Love Bitwarden, I personally onboarded dozen … but they must heavily invest in UI/UX and fix their apps (+ extensions) It’s not easy and intuitive for non-techies.

I just switched to it from LastPass which, well, has even worse UX in my opinion. It's an extremely low bar to clear and I agree Bitwarden is quirky too, but for me it's still firmly been an upgrade.

The only thing I miss is an "add to bitwarden?" dialog when I sign up somewhere. Their docs say it exists but I've never managed to get it to appear :-)

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by imafish » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 10:08 AM UTC

For self-host - is it better than KeePass?

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by poglet » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 10:14 AM UTC

imafish wrote: post #5

For self-host - is it better than KeePass?

I’ve been trying to switch from KeePass to Bitwarden so that my partner and I can share some passwords but KeePass just works, so it’s been hard to change over.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by NoboruWataya » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 10:17 AM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #4

neon_me wrote: post #2

Love Bitwarden, I personally onboarded dozen … but they must heavily invest in UI/UX and fix their apps (+ extensions) It’s not easy and intuitive for non-techies.

I just switched to it from LastPass which, well, has even worse UX in my opinion. It's an extremely low bar to clear and I agree Bitwarden is quirky too, but for me it's still firmly been an upgrade. The only thing I miss is an "add to bitwarden?" dialog when I sign up somewhere. Their docs say it exists but I've never managed to get it to appear :-)

> The only thing I miss is an "add to bitwarden?" dialog when I sign up somewhere. Their docs say it exists but I've never managed to get it to appear :-)

I have seen this occasionally but it is fairly random and unreliable. And then sometimes it pops up for stuff I clearly don't want to save, like OTP.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by leokennis » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 10:18 AM UTC

Barrin92 wrote: post #3

probably my favorite open source project in years, together with Lichess. No idea why people still throw money at proprietary password managers.

Personally a happy user of 1Password. Reasons being:

- "It just works" for me and my non-tech-family

- It's only $50/year

Maybe BitWarden is just as good or better. But why take the gamble and migrate everything and everyone, when I have multiple happy 1P users for a low yearly cost?

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by Fnoord » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 10:18 AM UTC

imafish wrote: post #5

For self-host - is it better than KeePass?

For self-host, use Vaultwarden [1]

[1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by monkeydust » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 10:19 AM UTC

I am probably in minority but been using Clipperz for near a decade.