vaultwarden
Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
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What it is
Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
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Where it is used
No documented product use was verified in the last source check.
What people are saying
I recommend Vaultwarden as a bitwarden server. It's pretty quick to set up and completely open source. https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
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Also in these discussions
- bitwarden/server · linked in 9 of the same discussions
- jcs/rubywarden · linked in 3 of the same discussions
- jellyfin/jellyfin · linked in 2 of the same discussions
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This week on Hacker News
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Mentions over time
Observed mentions: 2018-07-11 03:10:43 UTC to 2026-10-10 17:24:57 UTC.
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Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 21 | 2 | 19 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 25 | 4 | 21 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 46 | 0 | 46 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 38 | 8 | 30 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 17 | 2 | 15 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 1 | 11 |
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What Hacker News says
182 sourcesVaultwarden – Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server, formerly bitwarden_rs
8 points · Open discussionVaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect
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