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Claiming 1Password has declined is unfair at best. They release a steady stream of updates, and when I discovered a UX issue earlier this year their team were on it like a rash.

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Yea I don't understand all the recent hate over their new version. I installed the new version on my devices, and while the keyboard shortcuts seemed to change, once I looked them up it worked better than before. I just use the cmd+ shift+space shortcut for everything now.

There are many, many, many issues raised on their support forum with regards to their new version. All of them are ignored.

The most glaring one: search. Which is verifiably worse UX now.

Also the change to force you to store passwords in the cloud. You used to be able to have a vault and keep it on your machines only. I can't see how any company could allow this software storing company passwords on their machines.

The weirdest thing is that they don’t have a Mac App Store version from v8. Most they’ve done is put up this page: https://1password.com/mac-app-store-subscribe/

I sort of like 1password, but I have to admit that on my personal macbook which is from mid 2015, if I am running anything moderately intensive (like a video game) then 1password drops about 20% of my keypresses when entering the master password if I enter it at my full typing speed. This is a huge pain because my password is long and I'm forced to type it slowly to avoid the drops.

Other text entry fields don't seem to suffer from this problem. AFAIK this wasn't a problem before the switch to Electron.

> I just use the cmd+ shift+space shortcut for everything now.

Whoa, I didn't know that one. Was that functionality around in earlier version?

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