First user questions

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback.

It’s a small thing, but is there a way to donate and flag that donation as associated with the plugin rather than the ongoing Vault (in which I have no interest).

There’s no direct way to flag Kee Vault subscriptions as being purely a donation for Kee without any intention to use the Kee Vault features. Feel free to post a private message to that effect from within the “Kee Vault account” page in the Kee Vault app or just take this forum post as an indirect marker of your support (thanks!).

It’s also likely that I’ll do some analysis of the basic Kee Vault usage metrics sometime next year so if I can see that there are x active accounts that show negligible disk storage usage and only very rare sign-ins to Kee Vault that’s a good indication of the overall number of “donation subscriptions” - it won’t allow direct attribution but that’s in line with my desire to minimise the information I collect about each subscriber anyway so possibly a blessing in disguise :slight_smile:

While registering for this forum, I also noted it doesn’t save my generated password on register - I could only save that password when I then logged in. This seems to be an issue to me - one where a password might be lost if a user is trying to use the Save login functionality (or as it would need to be, Save login or register).

That’s probably not specific to this forum. Typically I’ve always recommended keeping the newly generated password in the clipboard and then signing in straight after registering so that the new login can be saved at that point. That’s a little harder now than all those years ago since it’s now rare for a registration to send you straight to the sign-in form. You’re right that a better workflow might allow for a feature such as “Save login/registration form” although I’m not too sure how that would work - there’s enough variation between sign-in forms without also trying to identify registration forms. Definitely something I’ll bear in mind for a future improvement though.

Oh, and on that login screen, I thought I’d quickly redo the tutorial in case something is new, and that screwed up with this forum’s registration. A fairly unique situation, I would assume, but close to ironic.

Yeah for most people it’s unusual to have more than one login for a single domain name (kee.pm in this case) but it can happen, especially for people that a managing accounts on behalf of other people (clients perhaps). Therefore it shouldn’t really be causing too much of a problem. What exactly happened to screw up the registration on this forum?

And, while doing that tutorial, I noted the Create button in the dialogue looks, to me, like I’m creating a folder rather than the entry - its position and the fact it’s not near the close button were misleading to me. As a UI hint it’s probably worth adding agency / clarity to that button (I haven’t used this functionality much/at all in my previous install, if I remember correctly).

I completely agree. I’ve wanted to change that interface for years and user testing this year has only reinforced how poor that experience is in the context of modern web browsers. I’ve made a little progress this year on a redesign but I’m still not sure when I’ll have something ready for a beta release.

Oh, and finally, can I ask how I ensure my Kee specific bits of data are moved - the main one is fine-tuning of URLs that I’ve added over the years - I’m not sure which entries I added these too or if they’ve come along with my main KeePass database file. Are they stored there or on a sidecar file?

Either encrypted in your main KeePass file (or Kee Vault) or in your web browser’s local settings (Kee Vault syncs the local settings across multiple browsers too). I suspect that most of the URL fine tuning you refer to was done within KeePass rather than the web browser so you should be OK but I recommend reading Customise appearance and behaviour with settings / options / preferences to get a better understanding of where different types of settings are stored.