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"The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden" (it isn't good)
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this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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if you were looking for an excuse to torpedo this abomination, here it is. hosting this gargantuan stack just for an encrypted csv file? at least the client (electron) gobbles up RAM like it's free while being bug-compatible with whatever chrome version was current half a year ago.
sadly, news ain't great on the other side of the fence - keepassXC dev is all-in on vibeshitting; latest non-polluted version is 2.7.9.; works fine and the stuff they're working on is pretty far from essential. some unknown folks forked it but who's to say what their expertise is.
never thought I'd disable my autoupdate timers but here we are. keep your eyes open.
What do you mean by "gargantuan" stack? I have a single docker container for vaultwarden that was very easy to set up and it uses less than 100mb of ram.
Not sure about the client claims though. I haven't really looked into it that much. Are you saying all versions of the client and extensions of BitWarden have issues?
Can you explain the issues with KeePass? Or is there another thread?
the dev vibecodes; I make a distinction between using the crap as a boilerplate helper and a full-blown agentic "hey computer, do this but do it super-good!". not only that, they got a super-asshole vibe as they removed claude traces from the repo and then flaunted that it's so people won't know what parts were vibeshat. "good luck finding the cutoff point", I'm paraphrasing here.
to each their own, but that's a hard pass for that fork from me.
A password manager is literally the poster child for "I would rather it lack features, but be built carefully by an expert."
This is my unverified understanding of the situation.
KeepassXC team added Copilot to their workflow to manage PRs and code some basic (according to KeepassXC) stuff.