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Sounds like you're very happy with Bitwarden, and confident that if they go down you wouldn't lose access to your secrets.

Can I ask why the desire to switch to Vaultwarden? I assume if a significant slice of the userbase did this, the project would suffer—so I'm asking this question genuinely as an avid Bitwarden supporter myself.

I hope they don't have to rely solely on VC funding, seems that VCs motives would be precisely orthogonal to my own in terms of privacy and feature roadmap.




I run Vaultwarden and still buy a license. I wish they’d offer an optional self-hosted license specifically for those who want to support the project while hosting their own server.


Are you buying a license just to support BW? Or is there any other benefit?


Not them, but vaultwarden doesn't accept the license file, so it's surely just to support. I'm planning on doing the same thing at some point.


I trust bitwarden enough as of now and I don't see any privacy issues with them..... yet!

The main reason I'm switching is for the fun in it and having my data under my complete control. And, to save some money, for me and some friends, for whatever it is worth.




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