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Too much power in the hands of a family manager
Back in 2020/2021, a lot of us—myself included—poured time, energy, and probably a few cups of coffee into voicing concerns on the 1Password Community platform. One particularly lively thread, "Too m...
Hello rpaulson! 👋
Thank you for following up. Your original thread was accidentally caught in our spam filter, I’ve now released it and merged it with your other thread. I’m sorry for the mix-up and any confusion it caused.
Regarding the old thread, only conversations active within the last three years were migrated to the new community however none of your feedback has been lost. Your feature requests and input have been shared with our product team internally, and they remain open and under consideration.
At the moment, 1Password Families memberships are designed with the assumption that you trust the family organizer. The organizer has certain powers — such as inviting members, recovering accounts, and deleting members. If that level of trust isn’t comfortable for you, then you can use your own individual account instead.
That being said, this is an area that we'd like to improve. Our Senior Director of Product, End User Experience, shared an update recently on Reddit:
Thanks for the feedback and I do recognize the implications this can have. There are pretty major architectural changes that need to happen to make this possible. We have not forgotten about this and it is still on my list. It's just taking time. There are, however, some other architectural changes happening that might accelerate this work.
We’re grateful for your thoughtful feedback, and we’ll continue to share updates as progress is made however we don't have a timeline on when this might be. Thank you again for raising this, it truly helps us shape 1Password for the better.
-Dave
Even though I’m concerned this message might also be deleted – like the thread I started two days ago, which disappeared almost immediately—I’ll try once more to share my perspective:
Many of us, myself included, invested significant time, energy, and probably more than a few cups of coffee into raising our concerns on the 1Password Community platform. One particularly active thread, "Too much power in the hands of a family manager," appears to have mysteriously vanished during the migration to the new community.
Don't get me wrong — I'm a happy 1Password user, and in my opinion, it's (still) the most polished password manager out there. It offers many great features that most others lack, like SSH key management, CLI integration, and more. I also understand that the Family account is essentially a rebranded Business account, so changing the underlying architecture is likely a complex task – and perhaps not even worth the effort if revenue from family accounts is relatively small compared to business clients. That said, I’d simply prefer honesty and transparency over silencing valid, critical voices.
According to 1P_Dave's reply in the Too much power in the hands of a family manager post,
Your original thread was accidentally caught in our spam filter, I’ve now released it and merged it with your other thread.
AJCxZ0 I saw 1P_Dave's message. I think you may have missed that I wrote my reply 10 hours before 1P_Dave merged the two threads — the one from 4 days ago that apparently got caught in the spam filter, and the current one. Without noticing the timestamps, my reply understandably looks like a redundant comment.
You are quite right that I did not sufficiently review the full timeline and the resulting posts. I followed the notification link to the Re: Too much power in the hands of a family manager post and replied to it with the information which I found from distant memory and a search. That post and the context for that reply remain in addition to their appearance in this post.
My understanding of the results of the merge process is lacking, though I suspect that the fault might not be entirely mine.
AJCxZ0 I think the "Re: Too much power..." thread is only accessible via its direct URL now, since the merged thread "Too much power..." has taken over on the platform. That might explain why the "Re: Too much power..." thread appears a bit messed up and it displays my reply – which I had added directly to the main thread – twice.
