That was written in the sky...

Open-Source is literally used as marketing tool for the under dogs until they reach a critical mass of users.

People were fighting on social media, defending the product, suggesting it, "it's open source", people were doing the marketing for them.

No wonder why people feel like they got raped, after all the hard work they have done for them...

But at least they didn't contribute code, did you? Not me, because I am old enough to never use such products, it's a classic rug pull, bait and switch.

Open source doesn't mean it's good, it must be hold by a bunch of strangers in T-shirt, not in full suite...

Corpo in disguise...

Pretty much seen it coming when the new CEO came in and removed the words "Transparency" and "Always Free" from the official marketing.

Goddamnit, enshittification comes for ALL paid services eventually. Looks like I have another service to start self hosting..

It's still open source

Bitwarden's front-end (Apps, Extensions) must be hard forked before it is too late.

I really don’t want to have to switch password managers again.

It just blows my mind how so many comments use the term 'purchase' as if this new enshitification step still allowed for the dictionary meaning of the word.

I used to suggest bitwarden to everyone, now it's basically 'start using KeePass, keep a copy of your db in a USB drive in your safe, have fun'.

Does this mean I will, or won't be able to install the FOSS version through GitHub? Trying to stop repackagers from selling your project is one thing, but killing the source available installs would be another.

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.

That's quite the disappointment. Probably need to prepare to switch away from bitwarden or at least research options for open source clients for my vaultwarden backend.

Rest in Peace :(

"bitwarden apps will be the commercially licensed builds." I don't understand how this is going to change anything.

I self-host vaultwarden. I use the official Bitwarden app, it works swimmingly. Going the self-hosted route you get enterprise features (I don't use em).

Doesn't the licensing stuff connect with the backend not the app?

https://hub.docker.com/r/vaultwarden/server

Interesting thread I stumbled upon from a few years ago where everyone is praising Bitwarden as essential. Times sure do change.

Sigh... I hope this isn't the first move of enshitifying bitwarden. I read the comments/replies and hope this is benign but I'm now nervous

Fantastic. I'm tired of having to change password managers. DashLane, Keepass, LastPass, etc., they all end up shooting their own foot somehow.