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Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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The new CEO concerns me. I didn't know who the founder was but I always had the impression it was a lone hacker. They passed the baton. Now it's some old Web 1.0 guy who was the CEO of eFax in the 90's. That's not the type of service I thought I was using. I looked up their headquarters in Santa Barbara and it's a co-working space. That doesn't sound very secure. Though that could be their corp address and they're hi…

The "new" CEO has been at the helm since 2019. Long before the mentioned funding in 2022. We don't really have a HQ since we are a 100% remote company. Source: I am the Bitwarden founder.

Thank you for a great product. Carry on.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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I wanted to like Bitwarden, due to its “open source” nature. But 1Password is really miles ahead, and it's a little ironic, as 1Password 8 went through a major refactoring to a Node-enabled UI, which many people disliked, and it's still miles and miles ahead. I tried teaching my father to use Bitwarden for the sole reason that it seemed to be translated into my native tongue. In his use, Bitwarden turned out to be co…

> But 1Password is really miles ahead, and it's a little ironic, as 1Password 8 went through a major refactoring to a Node-enabled UI, which many people disliked, and it's still miles and miles ahead. I use both. It’s far from “miles ahead”

If 1password keeps applying their current development standards, I'm pretty sure Bitwarden will overtake them soon simply by virtue of not getting worse.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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FYI - Bitwarden took $100M in VC money last year. At some point, the pressure to aggressively monetize will unfortunately happen. https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/06/open-source-password-manag...

What could a password managing service possibly need this amount of money for - or worse - what could they possibly plan to be doing with it to convince the VC that they will get even more money back from this deal?

Security, They need a lot of security personnel to guard data

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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I wanted to like Bitwarden, due to its “open source” nature. But 1Password is really miles ahead, and it's a little ironic, as 1Password 8 went through a major refactoring to a Node-enabled UI, which many people disliked, and it's still miles and miles ahead. I tried teaching my father to use Bitwarden for the sole reason that it seemed to be translated into my native tongue. In his use, Bitwarden turned out to be co…

When was the last time you used it? They just had a UI change here recently and it's better than the original. It's cheaper for personal and family accounts compared to 1password. I've been a paying customer of Bitwarden for a long time now and have never experienced any of these issues. FYI, 1password has taken almost 1 billion dollars in vc investment. They have an obscene amount of pressure to grow.

Why would a password manager need $1B?

Cloud password manager functionality can be accomplished in 6U of server space. Vault files are measured in kilobytes or megabytes, millions of customers could be handled by a single SSD RAID and a fast Xeon. Infrastructure and software to make it secure, reliable, and user friendly, add expense but not 9 digits of it.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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No. The user experience of 1Password is just frustrating. I use it daily for work and don’t like it. I’ve used it longer than I’ve used bitwarden.

I started with keepass, and switched to Bitwarden for personal use, and LastPass for work (before LastPass imploded). I now use 1password everywhere. I've got complaints, sure, but Bitwarden regularly fails at input field detection on mobile and web, regularly fails at login (particularly with biometric). If a tool can't reliably do it's core functionality, it's not fit for purpose.

I've never had any issues with Bitwarden.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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post #131

I’m relatively new to this site. Why is this post popular? For me it links to the Bitwarden front page.

afaik this site is for showing interesting things and discussing them. this post is to show the bitwarden password manager, nothing more to it.

OK, thank you :)

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

When was the last time you used it? They just had a UI change here recently and it's better than the original. It's cheaper for personal and family accounts compared to 1password. I've been a paying customer of Bitwarden for a long time now and have never experienced any of these issues. FYI, 1password has taken almost 1 billion dollars in vc investment. They have an obscene amount of pressure to grow.

Why would a password manager need $1B? Cloud password manager functionality can be accomplished in 6U of server space. Vault files are measured in kilobytes or megabytes, millions of customers could be handled by a single SSD RAID and a fast Xeon. Infrastructure and software to make it secure, reliable, and user friendly, add expense but not 9 digits of it.

They are moving into enterprise(or trying to anyway), see things like passage[0], etc. They are trying to grow their brand and reach beyond just a simple(but nice) password manager.

0: https://passage.1password.com

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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I wanted to like Bitwarden, due to its “open source” nature. But 1Password is really miles ahead, and it's a little ironic, as 1Password 8 went through a major refactoring to a Node-enabled UI, which many people disliked, and it's still miles and miles ahead. I tried teaching my father to use Bitwarden for the sole reason that it seemed to be translated into my native tongue. In his use, Bitwarden turned out to be co…

You can self-host with vaultwarden instead, and still use the client interfaces.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

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