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Re: 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults

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+1 for Bitwarden I used to use Enpass and never had an issue but it's not open-source and you have to pay for Mobile client.

I stay with Enpass.

Same here. Enpass works perfectly for me (I don't require family sharing, though, so no idea if it's lacking in that respect).

Re: 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults

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I am a 1PW subscription user and am happy with the product (however, seeing they are moving to Electron means that is very subject to change...) but Saying that "customers voted with their wallet" and chose subscriptions is disingenous Ever since they've had subscriptions they've made the standalone license page extremely difficult to find on their site. They really didn't give regular users a "choice"- they dark-pat…

The iron law of software products: like the product -> dislike the company offering it -> dislike the product.

Re: 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults

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I recommend this every time a similar news item gets posted. Password Safe (designed by Bruce Schneier). I use the iOS and Linux apps and keep them synced via DropBox. Been around for years (I've been using it almost as long). Still getting updates. Still works.

https://pwsafe.org

Re: 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults

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I haven't had a single bad experience with Bitwarden. I even pay for it now and still run it locally just to support them. Highly recommended if you don't want to be forced into 1Password's service.

i switched from lastpass to bitwarden for about a year or so and its what i recommend to most people.

i would be still using it myself but i also wanted to login to desktop applications so ive been using keepassXC since.

keepass's auto-type feature is also a great way of autofilling passwords without having to give your browser access to your password vault

Re: 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults

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Electron is a pile of shit and _every_ Electron app I am forced to use should be a source of continuous shame for any dev who actually worked on it. This has nothing to do with improving features or service and is completely about increasing revenue and improving the sort of numbers investors like to see -- driven entirely by the fact that AgileBits has recently closed a B round and needs to show more revenue to just…

I'm a feature developer for 1Password, and I want to clarify a few things. I've posted this already in another thread, but there seems to be some misinformation being spread that our technical decisions are being driven by VC funding. Our decision to built the macOS app in Electron was absolutely not driven by VC money. For the past few years, we've been working on consolidating 1Password's business logic into a sing…

That Electron is an unpleasant experience and is a resource pig that makes Java look svelte? No, that is not misinformation.

That AgileBits has been doing everything it can to force people to the subscription model and that this push to subscriptions very coincidentally lines up with two rounds of VC investment for over $300M over the past couple of years? No, that is not misinformation.

It may have been easier for the dev team to use Electron as their cross-platform toolkit, it is not easier for the users to put up with the attendant bloat and reduced performance.

The ones who should stop spreading misinformation regarding the forced subscription all seem to be working for AgileBits.

Re: 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults

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i don't see any real security model here. online only is insecure by design. Hopefully for customers who stick around the user experience continues to be first class, at least, but I have my doubts about that as well. I don't know anything about this company or who makes the decisions, but as a user, in my opinion, 1password used to make every decision in a way that I would have considered correct. 1password made good decision after good decision after good decision as they grew as a company over the years. Every decision was user and security focused, and the product was consistently excellent. those days are over, apparently. from my perspective, there has been a massive shift in company/product values since the shift to the subscription service. I wish them well.

Re: 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults

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As long as 1Password keeps their policy of not selling usage data to 3rd parties like LastPass does, I’ll keep using this service Self hosting would be nice to keep though. Been thinking about setting up a server to hold all that stuff

do you have any links or a quick summary of what lastpass is doing? i hasn't used that in years but i would be curious to know anyway

Re: 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults

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> requiring two separate teams of platform developers for every feature we needed to implement So your margins are more important than your users’ native experiences. Got it.

The primary issue with having two separate teams for the same platform was not money, it was time. To be clear: we wanted to build a native app in parallel with our cross-platform Electron solution, and we had the developers to do it. But unfortunately, having an additional team that needed to implement the UI for every single new feature was a significant slow-down, and we collectively realized that we could not mee…

I don’t understand why two teams means slower. Are you keeping the total number of engineers the same? If you are saying 2x engineers on electron complete tasks faster than 1x on electron and 1x on native, you are basically agreeing with OPs take.

You take money to provide software. But then you become lazy and greedy and want 1 size fits all. End result is your users having clunky, high latency experience.

Re: 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults

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Keepass is zero.

And has zero native syncing functionality being presented by 1Password across every platform on the planet.

i use syncthing to take care of the replication. no issue.
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