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cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/57178743

RyanL Bitwarden Employee

Hello everyone!

Starting in the next release, the Bitwarden apps published to the various stores will be the commercially licensed builds. No action is needed, and the apps will work exactly as they do today.

Bitwarden remains committed to open source security and transparency
The GPLv3 OSS licensed version continues to be updated and published on GitHub
All current features are available in both versions
License details are on GitHub
Bitwarden remains committed to a robust, free forever plan for everyone

If you have any questions, please ask them in this thread. Thanks all!

EDIT:

Bitwarden is not going closed-source
You can still fork Bitwarden
No change to self-hosting, the licensing change affects those who are repackaging and reselling Bitwarden
The free plan is here to stay permanently
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[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If you are on Lemmy, theres very high probability that you also have the technical abilities required to self host Vaultwarden and stop relying on a greedy company for your most critical aspect.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I could but I don't want. Self hosting something this important? I can't login to any website without this software, including my email. It's super critical.

[–] krysel@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The vault gets synced to your devices. So even if your Backend goes down you dont lose access to your passwords in an instant

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So you have basically a local copy on your phone, for example, that syncs when possible?

[–] krysel@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

yes, exactly. This gives you at least some time that you have to figure out what went wrong with your vaultwarden server/connection

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yeah, until the client logs you out randomly. it has an increased chance when the server behaves funky.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I've been self-hosting vaultwarden for a year and this has literally never happened to me.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

it happens to me once or twice a year, and to people for whom I have installed bitwarden too. official clients, bitwarden.com server.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 points 8 hours ago

Maybe that's a bitwarden issue, I guess. One more point for selfhosting. Also, even if that were to happen to you, you most likely have it installed in more than one device. The chances of all sessions logging out at the same time would be extremely low.

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 9 points 2 days ago

3-2-1 backups guys

[–] giant_smeeg@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah vaultwarden and photos are the 2 things i'm too nervous to selfhost. I do selfhost basically everything else but these 2 things are too important for me to mess up that I just don't...

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I have Vaultwarden, it works with the web app and browser extensions. But is there a vaultwarden specific android app? I know technically I can use the Bitwarden app. But sometimes they update the Bitwarden app too fast for all the changes to translate into Vaultwarden and then im kinda forced to use the web app.

The web app is just a minor inconvenience to me so I continue to use it. Just wondering if there is an easier Vaultwarden specific solution for android.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

How often do you update vaultwarden? This has never been an issue for me.

[–] Nullpwn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, keyguard is pretty good

[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Then we will shit ... the enshitification exodus goes on

[–] abc@suppo.fi 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Then again, if you can do that, why not just use pass

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 7 points 2 days ago

There seems to be only one Android client, and it's been archived on Github. I kinda need an android client for a password manager to be usable.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are the clients usable or is the user experience more like KeePass (i.e. bad)?

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

They only have text on the home page, so I'm not super hopeful about that, but then they do link like 10 different compatible clients

[–] Nullpwn@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Yes because using a different then normies app also means technical skills. In fact, haven't your PhD diploma came along when you signed up for your Lemmy account?