Material tends to be ugly as balls but if usability improves, that’s great.
I tend to think the modern material doesn’t provide nearly as much opportunity to be colorful and provide a unique visual identity as the OG material did.
It’s also flattening everything which to me was one of the more fun parts of the design with elevation and shadows inspired by layers of paper.
Man I miss Inbox so much. It kept me so much more organized than Gmail ever has.
good, but please don’t make it slower
Running natively rather than on the xamarin/maui framework would hopefully mean it’s more responsive. It is a bit sluggish to load right now
til it’s on xamarin, i assumed it was slow to load due to the thousands of rounds of decryption
Unless you’ve changed your vault encryption settings (which is not a bad idea!) it will likely decrypt rather quickly.
I changed mine to Argon2id with settings such that one iteration takes over one second (on a Ryzen 5800X3D, about the same on my phone), since I don’t unlock it very often.
Hopefully the UX improves. Last time I tried Bitwarden it was so much worse than 1 Password.
I’m happy with the current one, but sure.
Seriously, I’m getting tired of hearing people throw around words like dated and modern to describe what are just a different styles of app UI.
There’s nothing wrong with how it looks now. As long as the new look doesn’t hide actual features and options while wasting screen space, I’ll be fine with it, but there was nothing wrong with how it is now.
Sometimes it’s justified. If an app looks like it was designed for Windows 3.1, Android C, or god forbid Motif, it just screams “hasn’t been maintained in decades”, and it looks terrible.
But yeah, I don’t have any aesthetic complaints with Bitwarden. It’s neither pretty nor ugly, just functional.
UI is basically considered UX. Bitwarden’s app looks dated af and I have had strong doubts about committing to BW due to only that. It gives the impression that it is abandoned. Looks bad, basically. Not pretty. These things matter. It stands out among all my other modern looking apps, in a bad way.
Just because it doesn’t look like it was made for old people with eyesight problems doesn’t mean it’s outdated.
I would definitely agree. I would say that UI and UX are pretty important in open source.
I’ve used Bitwarden because it’s available everywhere I need it, including a good Firefox desktop extension. The only thing I worry about how they raised VC funds in 2022, and hope that doesn’t lead to enshittification. Fortunately I’m prepared to switch to self-hosted alternatives if that’s the case.
Good news!
