I appreciate the need for them to do what's right for their business, and that the HN crowd is probably not representative of their broader customer base.
With that said, they've lost a customer here. I would prefer not to pay a subscription, but I might have (though if you do the math, I've had paid upgrades frequently enough I'm not sure they'd have made more money off me with a subscription).
The sticking point is the lack of local vaults and removing the native app. Very disappointing.
The reason I used 1Password to start with and not KeePass was because it was Mac native. It is so deeply depressing to have faster and more efficient computers year-on-year and have all that efficiency wasted by moving to Electron apps. It sounds absurd to say, but there's a real ecological cost to less efficient apps too; it really does add up in aggregate.
The lack of local vault is the ultimate deal breaker, not because I think 1Password are untrustworthy, but because I'm reassured that I don't _need_ to trust them in the same way with a local vault as I need to if they're hosting the vault themselves.
I think what's most disheartening about this is that the customers who dislike this the most are also likely the customers who've been with them the longest and helped them build their business. I know I've been using 1Password since v2.
Given that password management is so central to our daily productivity, jobs, personal lives, I'm not surprised people have some very strong opinions about this. I hope the 1Password management read these threads, but I doubt it.
I will stick with 1Password 7 for as long as I'm able.
With that said, they've lost a customer here. I would prefer not to pay a subscription, but I might have (though if you do the math, I've had paid upgrades frequently enough I'm not sure they'd have made more money off me with a subscription).
The sticking point is the lack of local vaults and removing the native app. Very disappointing.
The reason I used 1Password to start with and not KeePass was because it was Mac native. It is so deeply depressing to have faster and more efficient computers year-on-year and have all that efficiency wasted by moving to Electron apps. It sounds absurd to say, but there's a real ecological cost to less efficient apps too; it really does add up in aggregate.
The lack of local vault is the ultimate deal breaker, not because I think 1Password are untrustworthy, but because I'm reassured that I don't _need_ to trust them in the same way with a local vault as I need to if they're hosting the vault themselves.
I think what's most disheartening about this is that the customers who dislike this the most are also likely the customers who've been with them the longest and helped them build their business. I know I've been using 1Password since v2.
Given that password management is so central to our daily productivity, jobs, personal lives, I'm not surprised people have some very strong opinions about this. I hope the 1Password management read these threads, but I doubt it.
I will stick with 1Password 7 for as long as I'm able.