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by rvz 34 days ago
"Always free" was never sustainable for a password manager that took VC money and now needs growth at all costs [0].

Obviously predictable. Bitwarden is now in the extraction phase and it is now time to pay an expensive...

...$1.65 a month.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34427981

2 comments

Look at the CEOs other "ventures" he is a private equity squeeze guy.
Compared with KeePassXC and Syncthing, it is infinitely more expensive!
Oh yeah, I love having to manage sync conflicts in my password database because I was dumb enough to edit it on two separate computers that weren't both online at the same time.
Works best if you have an always on client. Easy if you have a VPS or a home lab, even a small one, a nuisance if you don't.
I have that and still have regular sync conflicts. :(
Yeah, my main reason to stay away from Keepass, everything is in a single versioned binary file. I like 'passwordstore.org', where every secret is it's own gpg-encrypted textfile in a git repo. Every change is a commit, easy to see history, easy to revert or know which version is newest. And easy to selfhost, you just need a place to git push/pull from.
What's to manage? A merge does the job.