Over the past 3 years the pace of development in APS has steadily fallen off as maintainers including myself have moved on to other things. I no longer have time and motivation to dedicate to this project, and in the absence of significant external contributions there is no-one else I can offer the project's stewardship to.

To that effect, I will be archiving the repository on Monday, October 14th 2024 at 7AM GST. In the situation that a serious and viable fork emerges, I will help them as much as I can with the transition. The criteria for what counts as "serious and viable" is entirely vibes-driven for now, and may become more specific in the future. In case I determine that a fork does not live up to my made up standard, they will have to come up with a slightly more creative name than "Android Password Store" and watch low 4 figures of cash wither away in OpenCollective's bank account.

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[–] alper_celik@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good thing i switched to selfhosted vaultwarden setup.

Sees bitwarden drama, Noooo😭

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, with all the stuff going on with password managers, I wonder if there's a truly future-proof setup that can be self-hosted and will never have these issues.

I was a Keepass user many years ago, but I'm not confident that a Keepass-like system would work well with some very computer-illiterate family members. Bitwarden is hard enough to teach them, and it's one of the easy ones!

[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There is no such solution but you could just not update your mobile app and keep using vault warden. Nothing will change for you.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

you could just not update your mobile app and keep using vault warden.

Well, I'd prefer that the apps that are a gateway to my most important pieces of data (passwords) be updated to plug vulnerabilities and exploits. If it were any other app/service, then I can live without updates. But not something related to passwords.

[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Someone will fork it, once Bitwarden close the source you won't know if they are even patching vulnerabilities.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Yup. I'm either hoping for a more sustainable alternative, or a fork with active updates.

For now, I'm holding my position, but preparing for an exit from Bitwarden.

[–] emrsmsrli@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

vaultwarden is perfectly fine. we just need to fund 3rd party clients for platforms. on android we already have keyguard, albeit it being only source available

[–] alper_celik@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah vaultwarden even has its own web interface so my passwords probably not going to locked behind priopority apps. İ think i will keep using it for a while at least.

[–] unrushed233@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

albeit it being only source available

Isn't that exactly why we need to leave the official Bitwarden client for something else?

[–] emrsmsrli@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

yup, my point was we need fully open source clients for all platforms

[–] unrushed233@lemmings.world 1 points 5 days ago

I agree