First @grb, yes, I am fairly new to this forum, because I’m a new Bitwarden user. However, as I’ve advised in several of my past threads for which you have graciously responded, I have appreciated all of your help and support, which reflect quite nicely upon you personally and the Bitwarden team as a whole.
December, 2022:
Second, if facts smart and the protein tastes like crow, so be it. Behind hundreds of current user’s posts and potential user’s posts, there are generally hundreds more who didn’t post. Perhaps promises of sorting functionality shouldn’t have been made December, 22, about the sorting functionality being “bundled in with improvements to the web vault coming this year”. To give credit when due, (contrary to my misstating 2-years in my original post), a little over a year has passed & the “coming year” promise has only been technically missed by a few months. But, as a well-seasoned engineering colleague joking advised me decades ago: *sometimes you just have to shoot the engineer and ship the product. With some herein waiting for several years and others less time, another lost year and a missed date, are at best, frustrating.
Third, as far as exaggeration goes and about the sorting wherewithal being present, I assumed it wasn’t fully so. Because I assumed someone wouldn’t have been simply sitting on it and not rolling-it-out in 2023, as promised it would be herein, on December, 2022.
But it was frustrating to a “normal” non-techy user being teased with a potential CLI sorting solution; which implies that sorting is not only possible, but it’s being done by those with the programming knowledge to do so.
To a neophyte user like me and others who expressed the fact that a database is a database, I know from the experience of using MS Access & Apple’s FileMaker Pro, this meant that sorting wasn’t rocket science – i.e., it was doable by using Bitwarden’s CLI (whatever that is). Thus, the sorting ability/function(s) only needed some directional focus, or some heat under someone’s chair, which, after 5-years of requests and then over a year of promises, it apparently hadn’t gotten.
Lastly, the reason for a bit of snarkiness in my post, was because of how much I favor Bitwarden – it’s business model, it’s svelte interface, being open source, all of the great reviews etc. In fact, my needs didn’t require me to become a premium user, but I thought what the heck, I will contribute, because I appreciate the software and what the Bitwarden team is doing.
As such, because of my very positive conclusions about Bitwarden, it didn’t compute as I read through this thread, that promises were made and not kept; let alone that something so important as sorting, was left off the original development table and remains so, eight (8) years after its release. More importantly, the December, 2022 post stating that sorting is coming to a computer near you; was out of character and appeared non-responsive (e.g., nothing else about it was said and sorting was still missing-in action 3/7/2024), when my experiences herein with this forum and you grb, and with my single Bitwarden’s support experience, all were prompt, satisfying and completely responsive!
Hopefully, sorting being added to the browser Vault will be introduced sooner, rather than later. I really miss being able to find and use recently used logins and the other sorting features I previously had.