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I've been a 1Password customer for five years. The move to 1password 8 has been beyond disastrous: terrible extension integration, browser constantly crashing when trying to log into the web panel, and the mobile app integration hardly works with mobile browsers.

Add the recent announcements that the company will no longer support their last stable version -- 7 -- and move to using telemetry -- I'm out.

I've jumped to Bitwarden; open source, cheap, and competitive features. It was a no-brainer.

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i have literally over 5,000 passwords going back almost 30 years in a dozen vaults in 1P. How easy was it to migrate to Bitwarden? Any issues with Windows, Android, Linux, i(Pad)OS with the move? thanks!

I can't speak for multiple vaults, but it was extremely easy for me to import my single vault:

    1. Export 1P passwords to a 1pux file
    2. Import file into Bitwarden
    3. Done.

    2b. If you have attached documents in 1Password, you need to manually add those to Bitwaren.

This process is pretty straight-forward, though. To get a clean list of all items with file attachments in 1Password, I found it very useful to create a Smart Folder with the rule "Number of attachments is greater than: 0".

[1]: https://bitwarden.com/help/import-faqs/#q-how-do-i-import-fi...

How did you deal with unsupported data types? As far as I remember, Bitwarden is extremely limited when it comes to that.

What are examples of unsupported data types?

As far as I can see, Bitwarden only supports Logins, Cards, Identities, and Secure Notes. 1Password has separate item types like:

- Documents - Databases - Email Accounts - Servers - Software Licenses - SSH Keys

I have several entries in all of these types. Of course, you can map them to one of Bitwarden's types (usually as a Login, I would guess), but as far as I remember, it would have taken quite a bit of manual cleanup to get this to work right. I wonder why Bitwarden doesn't have additional types, even if just as a way to have some better organization of your items.

I will definitely try Bitwarden again in the near future. I recently reverted to 1Password 7 which works so much better than 8, but as EOL for 1Password 7 is imminent and my subscription renews in the summer, I think it's time to try the alternatives again.

> Software Licenses

> Documents

Bitwarden's Secure Notes features works: Licenses as text can be saved to a note, while a document or other file can be attached.

Wow. I thought I had a lot with over 900. Mostly exported from Brave because I just started using a password manager less than a year ago.

I have 1100+ but I suspect many are "dead" or otherwise invalid/not needed, but there's never a reason to remove them (this is likely a source of metadata leaking someday, somehow, as it may indicate if you once had an account, etc).

I have no idea why they removed the 1Password android keyboard. It was such a convenient fallback. Autofill is extremely unreliable.

Pity they can't gather telemetry on something that they have removed.

I'm thankful I still have it installed, and that Android does not yet expunge things that one cannot install any longer. But, you'll be sad to know that it only speaks to the 1P 7 app, and thus is becoming less and less relevant toward when they eventually nuke the v7 android app

I did actually consider trying to PR a change to one of the open source keyboards in F-Droid but ... TBH, the new 1P feels less and less like team players so until they start to open up some of their own stuff, I shouldn't throw good glucose after bad

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