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by dteare 1852 days ago
Thank you for supporting us all these years! We wouldn't be here without awesome customers like you. <3

As a long time user I bet you remember when we needed to write posts like Two Factor or not Two Factor[1].

> One and a Half Factors?

Good times. :) Thankfully with our own service we are now able to provide real 2FA as our server is able to enforce it. Same with family sharing, team environments, automated backups, item history, account recovery that only your family organizers/team admins can perform, along with simple invites and easier device setup.

And it's not just new features but we can make existing ones better. You probably have seen your fair share of Conflict Resolution windows and weird sync issues over the last 10 years. Sync is a hard thing to get right and being able to rely on a server to give specific responses in specific situations has enabled us to provide a much better experience than we ever could with a generic file service.

The reality is 1Password is better than it ever has been as a direct result of allowing our developers to work their magic on both sides of the network connections. Server and client.

It's a bit dated now but I wrote From a Happy 1Password Maker[2] back in 2017 that highlights a lot of things we love about memberships. In it I explain why I'll continue to non-apologetically nudge everyone towards 1Password Memberships.

[1]: https://blog.1password.com/two-factor-or-not-two-factor/ [2]: https://blog.1password.com/why-we-love-1password-memberships...

++dave; 1Password Founder

1 comments

For what it's worth, not a single one of those entries in the "no more" list appeals to me in any way. I've never complained that I lost my master password, or that the license didn't work on multiple platforms, or that I accidentally deleted my files. I don't feel the need for 2FA because -- and this is a big deal to me -- my password database isn't online. I know how to do backups. It's simple and self-contained. I can use it at work where policy prohibits online password management. I don't have to worry that I'm getting continuous "new features" updates that are going to change my working environment outside of my control (I can still roll back to v6.0 if I want). I don't like external dependencies. This is a much, much greater concern to me than the "niceties" you mention that literally bring me no value. So please, stop acting like you know better than your users. You may have the 90% case nailed but you're just pissing the rest of us off with your attitude.
> I don't feel the need for 2FA because

The problem here is how many services have been moving to forced 2FA lately (presumably because their users keep getting their re-used passwords leaked).

I'd move to 1Password (from KeePass) just to deal with these obnoxious 2FA requirements - except many of them, adding insult to injury, are SMS-only. (Feature idea for 1Password? Assign me a phone number that will automatically consume SMS 2FA codes and type them into browsers for me?)

Oh, I regularly use 2FA on individual sites. I just don't see the point of using 2FA to access passwords for sites which, if important, have 2FA enabled themselves. 4FA?