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0 pointsDylan168071y ago0 comments

Development costs money and that's fine, but I don't like it when companies act like their pricing is based on the cost of providing a service, and the service is "syncs a single sub-megabyte file between a few devices". You can get that service a thousandfold for free. (And even if they give you more space, that's a worthless addon to almost all customers.)

In particular, the reason it's annoying to sync keepass is because of how the program is designed. There are other managers in that ecosystem that let you log in to google/microsoft/dropbox/anything and then you're done. It all syncs perfectly from then on. It's a development problem, not a need for a dedicated service tied to a specific password manager.

And when I'm considering development cost I'm going to look at things on a 5 or 10 year timeline. I think that's a reasonable length to expect a software purchase to last. On that timescale, Bitwarden is okay but 1Password is not at all a good price.

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eviks1y ago

In your thousands of free services, how do you resolve conflicts in edits done on multiple devices?

Dylan16807OP1y ago

Shouldn't conflict resolution be in the program itself? It should ask me what to do and be able to keep both versions of the conflicting entry. And if I answer "keep both" or defer to later then it should pack both into the vault and upload that.

(Also I didn't mean thousands of free services, I meant that each one will give you thousands of megabytes for free. Honestly just google and microsoft accounts, and icloud with a device, cover just about everyone. But there are a lot of free storage services if you want them.)

eviks1y ago

(sorry about my misleading playful paraphrasing)

The program itself might not get information efficiently to do conflict resolution (or not at all): for example, you edit a file offline and sync, Dropbox and friends wouldn't be smart enough to just append both of a few bytes worth of data that a password-manager controlled service could since it would be aware of the data structure but would just dump both files, and then both on another conflict etc

So I guess it's just not the same type of sync service that you get for free in those many services

(also I think it's more than a sub-Mb, you have icons there, but also images of docs and what not)

Though maybe this is not an issue as you mention some of the keepass-based apps that go the "app-sync" route instead of manually placed file?

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eviks1y ago

In your thousands of free services, how do you resolve conflicts in edits done on multiple devices?

Dylan16807OP1y ago

eviks1y ago

(sorry about my misleading playful paraphrasing)

So I guess it's just not the same type of sync service that you get for free in those many services

(also I think it's more than a sub-Mb, you have icons there, but also images of docs and what not)

Though maybe this is not an issue as you mention some of the keepass-based apps that go the "app-sync" route instead of manually placed file?

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