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jdwusami
4 years agoNew Contributor
1Password 8 Mac Electron App Experiment
Is the 1Password 8 Mac electron app experiment about over so the dev team can get back to building a quality native app for the Mac? The other option is staying on 1Password 7 till I move my family a...
Former Member
4 years agoI've just updated to 1pw 8 beta and I also want to chime in on this discussion, as it has been a disappointing experience from the first moments of using it :/
- performance overall is just poor (13" macbook pro 2020, i7, 16gb ram; not a slow machine)
- scrolling feels sluggish
- icons take 10+ seconds to load when scrolling
- switching between items is immediate but the icon has ~3 seconds delay on being updated on the detail view
- resizing the window feels bad, it's just laggy and the ui always struggles to catch up with the window size
- clicking on the preview button on any document takes a couple seconds to open the preview
- and many other overall interactions that just don't feel snappy
- the menubar item is just useless, I miss 1pw mini
- quick access is also useless, I already use the alfred integration; again, I miss 1pw mini
- for some reason it keeps unlocking only one vault when opening 1pw, and it's the one I use the least
- the search is annoying, why doesn't it filter the current items instead of popping yet another surface with them like on 1pw 7?
- the sidebar is also useless, I don't use tags and I always search for stuff on all vaults; but I do use categories :(
- the watchtower view also seems pointless? it was more comfortable to access it on the sidebar :/
- and for some reason the web view of the watchtower isn't centered, and personally I find the overview "progress bar" comically large and silly; although those are small things
these are the main points I'm struggling with, although I fully agree with the other points mentioned earlier. for now I've downgraded back to 1pw 7
dunno... it's just sad that an app that I have to use daily, and that I really enjoyed using; it's suddenly more annoying to use. it just feels a step back from what I already have with 1password 7, and I'm afraid of the day when I won't have a choice but to use 1pw 8
I'm not going to just jump on the "electron bad" wagon, right now this app has less features than 1pw 7 and some of the ux decisions taken on this new version makes the usage more cumbersome and slower than before and this affects me directly, be it an electron app or not