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Bitwarden's app is about to get a lot prettier
(www.androidpolice.com)
good, but please don't make it slower
Running natively rather than on the xamarin/maui framework would hopefully mean it's more responsive. It is a bit sluggish to load right now
til it's on xamarin, i assumed it was slow to load due to the thousands of rounds of decryption
Unless you've changed your vault encryption settings (which is not a bad idea!) it will likely decrypt rather quickly.
I changed mine to Argon2id with settings such that one iteration takes over one second (on a Ryzen 5800X3D, about the same on my phone), since I don't unlock it very often.
It will be faster, because they are moving off Xamarin. Big win in all regards.
I'm happy with the current one, but sure.
It's a bullshit headline. The real benefit is quicker access to new, native features in the OS. So, for that reason, I'm happy they're making the move. But making it about how a utility product looks just seems... unimportant to me.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seriously, I'm getting tired of hearing people throw around words like dated and modern to describe what are just a different styles of app UI.
There's nothing wrong with how it looks now. As long as the new look doesn't hide actual features and options while wasting screen space, I'll be fine with it, but there was nothing wrong with how it is now.
Sometimes it's justified. If an app looks like it was designed for Windows 3.1, Android C, or god forbid Motif, it just screams "hasn't been maintained in decades", and it looks terrible.
But yeah, I don't have any aesthetic complaints with Bitwarden. It's neither pretty nor ugly, just functional.
A native app, nice
I switched to Bitwarden after 1Password moved to electron and booted selfhosters off the app and into their sub model. Jesus Christ is the current Bitwarden UI bad. It’s easily the worst looking application on my phone that isn’t a banking app; I’ve had zero issues with the functionality though.
Yeah, so in typical modern day fashion get ready to lose functionality.
They often trade UX for "pretty" these days and I find most apps and websites horrible to use in comparison to 10+ years ago. Like everything has to be in a context menu for some reason now.
Material tends to be ugly as balls but if usability improves, that's great.
I tend to think the modern material doesn't provide nearly as much opportunity to be colorful and provide a unique visual identity as the OG material did.
Apps like Inbox were works art with the use ux to match
Man I miss Inbox so much. It kept me so much more organized than Gmail ever has.
I actually achieved ✨ Inbox Zero ✨ with Inbox, and I was a teaching assistant at the university with lots and lots of emails pouring in. The concept of emails as tasks, and the features revolving around that core idea made Inbox so powerful.
Nowadays my inbox just keeps filling at a pace higher than I have energy to deal with due to the poor UI.
What really helped me deal with lots of emails was the categorization and bundling. You could sweep a lot of messages that you didn't care about. You could deal with a lot of emails in a row pertaining to a particular topic, heavily reducing context switching, etc. One of the greatest apps Google decided to retire. It really did fit my mental model of email.
Spark is pretty good, but... It just isn't Inbox. Just isn't the same.
It's also flattening everything which to me was one of the more fun parts of the design with elevation and shadows inspired by layers of paper.
yes, many of these apps feel kind of lobotomized
Glad to hear. It needs it. But it needs more than that. The functionality is quite basic.
I use 1Password now that it's on Linux and it's fantastic. Way, way more categories to choose from and beautiful design as well as fast sync make it a pleasure to use. I wouldn't use anything else
I use 1password and was considering switching to bitwarden or derivative. Perhaps to selfhost. What's beneficial about categorising logins? I wish 1password had a duplicate finder.
Having categories masks everything tidier and easier to find. If I'm looking for a Software licence key I saved, I search that category or Kik in there instead of looking through the entire database.
I don't like the Bitwarden model of dumping it all together and then having to search everything.
I'm old fashioned.
I don't think 1Password can be self hosted.
Do you mean find duplicate passwords or duplicate items? Doing a search will bring up all items so you will see duplicate entries and can delete them.
If I'm not mistaken there is the Watchtower functionality which shows you reused passwords - websites where you've used the same password each time (duplicates) and then you can use 1Password to generate new ones.
I just search everything, I'd like categories I guess but I never go into the list, just search everything. Duplicate items. When I moved from one version of 1P to the pay monthly it duplicated all of my entries so I had to manually remove them. Or a merge function or something.
Ouch. That's harsh. Did you contact their support?
Yeah, the only recco is to downgrade to an older 1P, then run the duplicate finder in that, which didn't work, then upgrade again. After this thread I rechecked and it notes duplicates in the entry but there isn't a 'scan and merge all' thing so I did it manually. I must have missed a bunch when I did it manually last time.
Nice to see they are moving to native platforms. With this news they took away my only reason for switching to the shiny proton pass.
Mine used to look pretty OK but then one day it moved everything into a folder named ironically No Folder and because I kinda need the passwords pretty badly I don't want to try and risk fixing it.
You can always download a copy for backup.
Hopefully the UX improves. Last time I tried Bitwarden it was so much worse than 1 Password.
Just need passkey support on mobile and we're all set.
(I don't know if the article mentions that, my adblocker prevents me from reading it)
They said they are working on it
Good news!
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2024
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