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The quiet renovation at Bitwarden

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Re: The quiet renovation at Bitwarden

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Post by belthesar »

pocksuppet wrote: post #140
giancarlostoro wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not my project but Vaultwarden is an open source (in Rust) alternative backend for Bitwarden. I believe its been around a while, and is still maintained. https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Is there an alternative frontend as well, or are you still locked in?

There is not an alternative frontend that I'm aware of, but as the article mentions, the clients are Apache 2.0 licensed, so in the event of a rug pull, a fork and rebrand of the clients would be what is needed to restore service.

Re: The quiet renovation at Bitwarden

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Post by backscratches »

pocksuppet wrote: post #140
giancarlostoro wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not my project but Vaultwarden is an open source (in Rust) alternative backend for Bitwarden. I believe its been around a while, and is still maintained. https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Is there an alternative frontend as well, or are you still locked in?

Their android app at least is open source and on available on their own f-droid repo

Re: The quiet renovation at Bitwarden

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Post by evolve2k »

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #109
0x262d wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm getting really tired of the enshittification cycle. Learning about android verification and captcha changes recently has been another big frustration point. I moved to android as a more open alternative to apple just a few years ago, and to bitwarden from lastpass around the same time. I would like to just have these infrastructural services work well and quietly without thinking about them for many years. Do I r…

Bitwarden hasn’t “enshittified” anything. It’s all entirely speculative

It has already enshitified. These changes are text book.

- Inclusion and Transparency values made more shitty

- Always free commitment removed. What? It’s right there “always”.

- Shittily hacking old blog post to become nonsensical

- Loss of confidence

- Stalling improvement cycle, no more repairs, just things quietly breaking and going bad.

Re: The quiet renovation at Bitwarden

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Post by baggachipz »

Say what you will, but the Apple ecosystem's Passwords app and integration works great. It locks me into their services (iCloud), but I don't see them ever charging for it or sunsetting it. (watch me eat my words in the near future)

Re: The quiet renovation at Bitwarden

#167

Post by chancek »

welder wrote: post #27

I don't care about raising prices, I'm worried about the new CEO having a PE mindset. That means Bitwarden will now focus on extracting value while the product stagnates and degrades in quality. Time to jump ship before their security and quality goes down the drain.

Yep! Feels like a hard truth about the product life-cycle. It may be time to find an alternative to what was a great alternative.

Re: The quiet renovation at Bitwarden

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Post by yoyohello13 »

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #113
yoyohello13 wrote: post #98

What a shame. I've been a paying Bitwarden customer since 2018. I really don't have time to move off yet, but I'll need to keep an eye out for where to jump. It sucks that this seems to just be the logical conclusion of all great projects.

Literally nothing has been taken away from BW yet, it’s all just speculative for now

Better to look for exit strategies before the need arises.

Re: The quiet renovation at Bitwarden

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Post by lillesvin »

Balvarez wrote: post #101

Omg, do we really need to make another app suck? I left last pass years ago, I'll leave again but wow I'm tired of this cycle. Private equity is truly the destroyer of value. The next time will be self hosted. Anyone know of a password manager that can encrypte and live in say Google drive?

> Anyone know of a password manager that can encrypte and live in say Google drive?

Can't most of the many KeePass variants do that?

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