Jesus, I'm tired of switching password managers.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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KeePassXC + KeePassDX is probably the best option, with the downside of no way to sync easily (syncthing is probably the best option there)
I might switch back at some point, been getting frustrated with the bitwarden extension performance always being so poor.
Sync however you want. Syncthing, Nextcloud, Dropbox, Gdrive etc.
KeePass isn't going anywhere. They're also dragging their feet on passkey support, so you might go with KeepassXC.
They also don't effectively allow collaboration though, which is my cheif reason for using a cloud hosted password manager.
Took me like 5 minutes to move back to KeepassXC.
Every company is basically evil at this point.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
This is why corporate promises can never be trusted, because a new CEO can change those promises on a whim.
It's part of why despite being interested in Beeper, I never signed up for it because I had questions about if those privacy promises they made would be kept if they sold to a bigger company... which they eventually did.
On the plus side Bitwarden already made an official open source self-hosted version, which can be forked and/or return to the community developed Vaultwarden roots.
Meanwhile KeepassXC keeps on chugging along.
Oh no, and I just setup Vaultwarden
That’s troubling, I don’t like what this portends.
The new CEOs background especially suggests they’re spiffing up the company for a later sellout, why else would they pick a merger specialist for the role?
I think the original title was more helpful because it shows that this is a recent development. Maybe you can add "new CEO"?
Bitwarden scrubs ‘Always free’ and ‘Inclusion’ values from its website as longtime execs step down
In February, longtime CEO Michael Crandell moved to an advisory role, according to LinkedIn, with no announcement from the company. His replacement, Michael Sullivan, former CEO of both Acquia and Insightsoftware, touts his experience with “all facets of mergers and acquisitions” on his own LinkedIn page, including experience working with leading private equity firms.
CFO Stephen Morrison also left Bitwarden in April, replaced by former InVision CEO Michael Shenkman. Both Crandell and Morrison joined the company in 2019. Kyle Spearrin, who started Bitwarden as a fun hobby project in 2015, remains the company’s CTO.
You're right, changed
Damn I guess I’m going back to keepass again since I am not really interested in hosting a vault
Well, poop.
Clue me in on why vaultwarden can’t exist without it?
It can, but vaultwarden, as it currently is, is an implementation of the server only. So if bitwarden decides to go closed source all the way, they'd haver to start either creating their own clients or fork the current bitwarden clients.
