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by dsissitka 1981 days ago
> You should be able to set a default username or email to automatically use when creating a new account.

I think that might be a mobile limitation. Profiles address that problem but I'm not sure if Android or iOS give developers the ability to autofill profiles.

Bitwarden's UX is pretty poor but the way I see it is that's what $12 a year gets me. :)
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folkrav 1981 days ago
> Bitwarden's UX is pretty poor

Hmm, I've tried LastPass, Enpass, a handful of Keepass clients I can't remember the name of and (shortly) 1Password, and I can't really find anything Bitwarden does that much worse than any of these. To be perfectly honest, they're all kind of clunky, IMHO.

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dsissitka 1981 days ago
> ...and I can't really find anything Bitwarden does that much worse than any of these.

I feel like I can think of a lot but I'll give you one that, to me, is Bitwarden in a nutshell:

What happens if you open your browser, go to https://news.ycombinator.com/login, and hit Bitwarden's autofill shortcut? Nothing, because you didn't log in to Bitwarden first. Pretty much every other password manager will ask you to log in and then they'll autofill.

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folkrav 1980 days ago
Ah, I always use the toolbar button rather than the context menu shortcut, so it's a non-issue in my case, as it just will ask me to log-in there. Yeah, that would definitely be a better flow. Maybe I'm just "used" to it and am overlooking some irritants, I don't know.
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isignal 1981 days ago
Agree the UX is poor but I prefer this because there are tradeoffs involved in some of these choices. Auto filling, for example, caused a bunch of critical bugs with LastPass. As an extension, there’s always going to be limitations that I’d prefer security software not push.

Natively integrated password managers like Firefox or Chrome are in a much better position to push for UX but you can see they aren’t that much better either.

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