Would invites be a solution? Anyone can sign up if they provide a number, otherwise you need an invite from someone with a number linked. It would clump the identity/legitimacy for all invitees into origin number, but still allow disparate accounts.
they did not "make it required", Signal was just never developed to support anything else for username/registration. Which is what they have now almost corrected.
It's wording then. Making something required sounds like an artificial limitation whereas implementing support for usernames requires a lot of work, it's not like they commented out a couple of lines on purpose.
What is required at the moment is any phone number, not your phone number. You can use a phone booth even.
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.
My biggest peeve is that if you search for a password and you happen to be in the "Card" category for example, it will return 0 results. A good alternative would be to show No Results for the category you are in, but then provide results for other categories below.
My biggest issue is when having to copy multiple fields from an entry into the webpage and having to use the search (because the entry is for a different domain or just a note or a card) you have to search for the entry again and again because the search key doesn't persist
Yeah that gets me somewhat frequently too, and second the request you have.
Another silly one is adding custom fields, you can’t change the type between visible/hidden once it’s created, so if you mess up, you have to delete the custom field and add it with the desired visibility. Ughhh
another is that if you do a search then click on an entry and do another search, the entry details displayed and what's in the search box don't match and it's not clear unless you're paying attention.
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.
1Password is very trustworthy too. They get audited frequently, and their db file format is open source (meaning you can write a 3rd party tool to decrypt them).
With UI/UX they are lightyears ahead of Bitwarden. I want to like Bitwarden, but when your application doesn’t even support extremely basic stuff like drag ‘n drop, I’m gone.
In general they also support newer tech much faster. And their secret key system is more secure than Bitwarden’s password-only method.
> With UI/UX they are lightyears ahead of Bitwarden.
1Password is arguably moving backwards these days, UI-wise.
I don't know if it's caused by the Electron update or just coincided with it, but I've been finding the keyboard autofill shortcut as well as keyboard navigation for selecting a given login on a page very unreliable lately.
That said, 1Password's "auto-rotate password" feature is still ahead of the competition, though. Bitwarden doesn't even seem to try, but that's still better than LastPass, which reliably used to lock me out by irrevocably overwriting the old stored password before the website confirms the new one as having been accepted.
> their secret key system is more secure than Bitwarden’s password-only method.
I don't know, their security key mechanism seems to be getting weakened in the interest of convenience as well. I was recently very surprised to notice that the iOS client apparently synchronizes the security key for any logged-in vault to iCloud Keychain, with no way to opt out – even for enterprise vaults!
Bitwarden will also soon support the WebAuthN/CTAP2 "PRF" extension, which is even better than a static security key since it rotates with every vault unlock.
> > their secret key system is more secure than Bitwarden’s password-only method.
> I don't know, their security key mechanism seems to be getting weakened in the interest of convenience as well. I was recently very surprised to notice that the iOS client apparently synchronizes the security key for any logged-in vault to iCloud Keychain, with no way to opt out – even for enterprise vaults!
In their defense, they document that the point of the Secret Key is that it remains secret from them/AgileBits/1Password, and that it is expected to be present on-device. It used to be called the Account Key, but the reason the name was changed was because far too many people were referencing it in emails to support, which undermined the design.
In your defense, while they started syncing the Secret Key in iCloud Keychain all the way back at v7.0, they had then and have had sense gotten plenty of feedback saying this should be optional. They have just refused to make it optional.
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?
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.
Apparently there is two different things, Collections and Folders. Folders exist for personal vaults and collections for organizations. No idea why you can't use folders in organizations.
Yeah you're right. I think folders are more like a "tag" in that it's not actually a container (I think you can even put stuff from an Organization's collections in your personal folders).
Anyway, with Collections, you used to have to create a collection and enter the name as Some/Thing, to get a hierarchy going. But I think they improved that so that you can just create that hierarchy of collections int he web gui as if they were folders in folders.
> store and sync passwords wherever is best for you
So, how would you access that cloud account in the first place? Unless you remember the password and disable 2FA for that cloud account, unless of course you add another 2FA manager which is just an extra non-needed complexity.
I find Enpass to be great for personal use at least. I've never tried it for business use. Luckily I paid for it when the Android app was $6.95 and got you lifetime usage on all platforms. They recently added passkey support.
I never installed it on Android. I use it only on my computer. But I use it also a lot as an organizer since it is so flexible. Has also my ID scans, Degree scans etc.
I have to use bitwarden at my company laptop and don't enjoy it at all. Weird UX with unlocking the vault via touch id on a Mac (this is literally the most common UI interaction, please make it nice).
On top of that, weird rare syncs/bugs, but this could also be coming from my employer.
Why is it underrated? In my personal bubble everyone is using it. Most of them self-hosted. My hole family and some friends use my instance. Besides pass (low non tech approval factor) there is nothing that comes close.
For hackers there is a CLI and with that also JS libs etc. to get it into anything you might want. For anyone else the UI is already miles ahead of Lastpass so there is no big compromise.
I pay for family, and I like it. The only thing I don't like is that 50% of the time it would not recognize that I created a new user/pass combination.
The coffee is really expensive where you live lol. Here is around €1. But it's a decent price for a password manager yes. And the personal one is even better.
They were one step further than just reflecting heat, they were tuning emissivity to actually give off heat and cool the surface underneath. Extremely impressive from a heat transfer perspective to cool a surface passively!
The idea is basically "sky is really cold, give it your heat." Fascinating.
Photopea has completely replaced my Photoshop usage, and now that I have an Illustrator equivalent, that monthly creative cloud subscription isn't looking too appealing...
The comparison is not quite equal. Because if I don’t pay for photopea, I can still use it for free with ads. So in effect it’s like a pay-what-you-want pricing model.
Photopea and Vectorpea live in the intersection between Photoshop/Illustrator and apps like Canva, which, let’s just accept it, is the vast majority of users out there.
Pull back for a moment and consider where this is going. If we’re talking three-legged stools, good raster and vector editors held up by the browser means they’ve got a seat at the table. Adobe is literally spending billions trying to achieve the same thing.
This stuff should be baked into the browser at this point, but we’ll eventually get there. With decent raster and vector tools you can build diagrams, whiteboards, pagination, presentation, animation, app mock-ups, even throwaway social media banners—-and it’s all scriptable and multi-player when it’s in a browser. And it’s easier to tack on “AI” when your workflow (another example) is in a browser to begin with.
Yeah, if I did it I'd want the area to be fenced in because one of my neighbors is nosy. It's a 1/4 acre plot, so not exactly a huge amount of land.
I know that my neighbors down the street have chickens because I occasionally hear them, but their yard is completely fenced in. I only know them well enough for casual greetings when we see them in passing, and there's a language barrier preventing more in depth conversation.
They might not know that the rules exist at all -- you have to go looking to find them. I'm sure that they're getting away with it because nobody cares and the yard is fenced in and nobody sees the chickens and because none of their next door neighbors care.
I don't talk to them much besides "hello", as communication is difficult since they don't speak much English and I don't speak much (any) Swahili.
I have a door from Run-Chicken, mechanically it's still good but the electronics went out in it. I'd love to have something like this running it, going to give it a shot.
If you can rip out the old motor and tie a string to the door (drill a hole in the piece that moves?), you can get a standalone motor from chicken guard. (You’d want the pro model or cheaper; their new all-in-one would have you replace the old door)
I might do this, but the servo still works. So long as I can still drive the servo, I think I'm good. It's open loop, so I'll need to watch something to determine when the door is fully shut.
Not only that, but people driving faster because they feel confident in their seat belts hurt other people to a greater degree since they're increasing their own kinetic energy.
I think this is commonly called risk compensation, but I prefer the alternative name risk homeostasis [1].
On the flip side, when trucks hauling heavy, dangerous loads have a frontal collision, their loads go forward through the cab, killing the drivers instantly. Makes them think twice before speeding and tailgating.
In an AI future, maybe we'll have cars that purposefully hurt drivers when the AI determines they're driving recklessly. Don't like it? Turn on autopilot.
I always truck drovers drove - on average - a lot better was because of the very direct impact losing their license would have on their livelihood. Even demerits could effect their work.
Part of why we do pre-orders is to get a good read on demand early enough to adjust our production capacity. Our main manufacturing partner is Compal, who is one of the three largest laptop manufacturer in the world, so we have headroom to be able to continue to scale up.
