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Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

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Post by lucideer »

traviswt wrote: post #2

Bitwarden is underrated. Passwords run everything in our digital life. I will gladly take a UI compromise here and there for more trustworthiness.

Bitwarden's UI is far from perfect but I find it better than any competitors I've tried (LP & 1Pass).

1Password feels cleaner, more integrated & polished but in practice the UX is inferior to BW - most regular actions take more clicks & discoverability is lower. And the password generator is even worse than LP's.

Lastpass UI is well known to be poor - Bitwarden's is far less worse by every metric.

Bitwarden's not perfect but what's significantly better UI-wise?

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

#12

Post by lucideer »

ramenmeal wrote: post #6
corytheboyd wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t even mind the UI honestly. It works. Some annoying UX here and there, but I can live with that. I happily pay for a subscription to support them.

I moved over from Lastpass, I find the experience of filling in a password in Bitwarden more jarring/slow than in Lastpass. I'm not sure what it is, maybe Lastpass had longer timeouts to require FaceID when filling a password? Bitwarden requires it every time.

> Bitwarden requires it every time.

This is configurable - not sure what the default is but every time does sound annoying.

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

#13

Post by mksybr »

treve wrote: post #4

I feel I may have made a mistake going all in on keepasscx. Been looking for something without a subscription and ideally open source. Keepassxc looks like it has a much nicer UI.

KeepassXC will have passkey support soon: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/1870

Don't get FOMO; both seem to support export and import, and they seem to be compatible formats, but you may need to lightly modify the CSV from Bitwarden.

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

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Post by Spunkie »

One of the benefits we saw moving from lastpass to bitwarden is it allow us to much more easily reduce duplicate entries for the same site/account.

So it's pretty annoying to see in the docs for this passkey feature that they just expect you to make a duplicate bitwarden entry for every additional passkey you need to add to an account. Especially when it's standard to register a backup key for any service that uses passkeys.

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

#16

Post by sph »

traviswt wrote: post #2

Bitwarden is underrated. Passwords run everything in our digital life. I will gladly take a UI compromise here and there for more trustworthiness.

And with the Premium upgrade at only $10 a year, it's outstanding. I wouldn't mind paying 10x that.

I introduced it at work to manage all our company credentials, and loved the fact that all users also get free premium for their personal account.

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

#17

Post by wetpaws »

Spunkie wrote: post #15

One of the benefits we saw moving from lastpass to bitwarden is it allow us to much more easily reduce duplicate entries for the same site/account. So it's pretty annoying to see in the docs for this passkey feature that they just expect you to make a duplicate bitwarden entry for every additional passkey you need to add to an account. Especially when it's standard to register a backup key for any service that uses p…

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Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

#18

Post by throwaway447 »

lucideer wrote: post #11
traviswt wrote: post #2

Bitwarden is underrated. Passwords run everything in our digital life. I will gladly take a UI compromise here and there for more trustworthiness.

Bitwarden's UI is far from perfect but I find it better than any competitors I've tried (LP & 1Pass). 1Password feels cleaner, more integrated & polished but in practice the UX is inferior to BW - most regular actions take more clicks & discoverability is lower. And the password generator is even worse than LP's. Lastpass UI is well known to be poor - Bitwarden's is far less worse by every metric. Bitwarden's not per…

Nothing beats www.enpass.io but they charge now. I still ran the free version (free version not available for download anymore).

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

#19

Post by bmurphy1976 »

lucideer wrote: post #11
traviswt wrote: post #2

Bitwarden is underrated. Passwords run everything in our digital life. I will gladly take a UI compromise here and there for more trustworthiness.

Bitwarden's UI is far from perfect but I find it better than any competitors I've tried (LP & 1Pass). 1Password feels cleaner, more integrated & polished but in practice the UX is inferior to BW - most regular actions take more clicks & discoverability is lower. And the password generator is even worse than LP's. Lastpass UI is well known to be poor - Bitwarden's is far less worse by every metric. Bitwarden's not per…

I can't speak for the other password managers, but I find Bitwarden's organization management to be pretty terrible. As a personal password manager it's pretty good, but as an organization password manager, not so much.

Re: Bitwarden adds support for passkeys

#20

Post by gregschlom »

ramenmeal wrote: post #6
corytheboyd wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t even mind the UI honestly. It works. Some annoying UX here and there, but I can live with that. I happily pay for a subscription to support them.

I moved over from Lastpass, I find the experience of filling in a password in Bitwarden more jarring/slow than in Lastpass. I'm not sure what it is, maybe Lastpass had longer timeouts to require FaceID when filling a password? Bitwarden requires it every time.

This is configurable in the settings. The default timeout is indeed too low and very annoying, but you can set it up to 4h I believe.
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