Tangential: Where is Bitwarden on the below roadmap right now? It wasn’t even good to users, but was an alternative to 1Password and others that had long crossed this bridge.

‘Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.’

- Cory Doctorow

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ilitirit a day ago | parent | next [-]

> It wasn’t even good to users

I may be out of the loop, but how was Bitwarden not "good" to users? Does this relate to the recent price increase?

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falcor84 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't get what semantic value you're getting by pasting this. It's almost like saying "VC-funded tech = bad", which is an ironic stance to take on this platform.

Is there anything that bitwarden did that is actually bad for you as a customer of theirs?

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rschiavone a day ago | parent | prev [-]

What's wrong with 1Password?

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Uvix a day ago | parent [-]

They switched from a purchase with local vault storage model (where you could sync it to the cloud if you wanted to) to subscription-only with cloud storage they control.

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mrweasel a day ago | parent [-]

Short of using pass, what are some good alternatives? My main critic of 1Password has been the cost, but it is a very good password manager, and price seems to have gone down... Or at least the dollars has weakened enough that the price has come down for me.

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gnabgib a day ago | parent | next [-]

The price just went up (March 27th) https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/24/1password-announces-big-price...

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mrweasel a day ago | parent [-]

Weird that their website isn't updated yet. My subscription renewed earlier this year and I noticed that the price had come down, but that's because the dollar has lost 15% of it's value since last year.

That is a pretty big price bump though, and I think it's going to cost them. It's certainly enough that I'll reconsider Bitwarden.

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Uvix a day ago | parent [-]

Bitwarden also increased their prices earlier this year, although it's still less than half the price of 1Password.

	▲	mrweasel 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Bitwarden is free, for the features I need.

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avtar a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> and price seems to have gone down

They sent an email a couple months ago stating prices were increasing as of Mar 27. The family plan went from $59.88 USD per year to $71.88 But it's still worth it IMO.