Design language

@KirkMcPike some questions can only be answered with time. What I know for sure is that Mac is really important to us (and, not that it matters much, but also to me personally), and the reason we have an early access is to get feedback to guide our next steps. We've already started acting on some of it, and we're going to keep doing that.

@claus yep, you're right. We started over with 1Password 8 in many ways, and there are certainly drawbacks to that decision. We think it sets us up to provide a better user experience in the long run because fewer lines of code means fewer places for bugs to hide, and now when a Linux or Windows user finds a bug, the Mac will get that fix automatically. Anecdotally, I fixed an issue with item category grouping in Rust several weeks ago and it was so satisfying to see it roll out in all the apps.

Why not releasing the Mac v8 first, before Linux and Windows?

I think there are a lot of reasons here. As you've mentioned, 1Password 7 for Mac is a really nice and mature app. 1Password for Windows is a lot younger, and 1Password for Linux was nonexistent. So it makes sense, for example, to release an app for Linux that doesn't have all the features of 1Password for Mac, because previously there was no app at all. Indeed the Linux app was very warmly received, even though it was much less complete at its stable release than the Mac version was at its early access release.

@dougl and @blankspace fair points. Sounds like I overly simplified the factors going into that decision. There's only so much time in the day, but it would be great if we can get there. As for Mojave, a Mac dev could speak more to this, but I think the things we were using required Catalina.

To everyone, thanks for caring and thanks for commenting. We're always going to try to make the best product we can, and we rely on your feedback to make that happen.