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by creshal 1623 days ago
> 1. Their auditing ("Event Logs") feature is unusable. It refers to items by some magical identifier which does not correspond to the name in the vault, e.g. "Viewed password for item ebabefac".

Names and all other identifiers can be changed freely, so Bitwarden refers to passwords by their unchangeable UUID, so you can keep track of an entry across any such changes.

What bitwarden lacks is an easy way to search for passwords by UUID, but that's a rather minor UX improvement.

> It's still (!) lacking a feature to actually send people passwords ...

Yeah, that surprised me as well. Back in 2014 or so we added magic password://uuid links to our internal password management tool, you can just send people the link, and when they clicked it, it opened that particular password, as long as they had access. I would've expected the competition to have picked up on it ages ago, but c'est la vie.

For exchanging passwords with external users, Send is reasonable enough IMO.

> The UX is .... not great.

Agreed. But given that everything else is solid and open source, I'll take it over any competitors, or continuing maintenance of our own tool, which quickly gets a whole lot more expensive...