I do agree with in that more can be done to reference Vaultwarden, particularly in the web-vault addition scripting can be done to remove the official Bitwarden logo and other branding and utilize further Vaultwarden’s custom icons and logos. In turn more articles and how-tos, more people unintentionally installing Vaultwarden, and more support questions directed towards to incorrect forums for the best support. However it does remain clear, as more people flock to Bitwarden that will simply add to those who wish to self-host, possibly on unsupported hardware such as ARM CPUs. But some articles unfortunately do not mention this difference, I am not sure if this is intentional or simply due to negligence. I do believe ultimately this fault lies in those creating the articles and how-tos, and some I have seen expressly mention that Vaultwarden is not affiliated with the official product or its team. They also give a lot of credit to the bitwarden team. Those involved in the Vaultwarden project are very clear that the two are different and I haven’t seen much where they refer to their software as bitwarden. The error is on Marius Hosting referring to Vaultwarden as bitwarden.

Though that being said, as Bitwarden becomes more popular so will any articles and sites referring how to install “Bitwarden” yourself to self-host. We do need to keep the © notice right? But the rest could be changed i think. Maybe something to change with the new vault version then? Initially I left the original branding to keep all the clients with the same branding thinking it would avoid confusion, but I’ve noticed some people have gotten confused seeing the bitwarden brand in the included web vault, so I’m not so sure about it now.

Yeah, what I got from Kyle when we talked about the rename was that the footer message in the web vault would be enough. We also are not going to provide custom mobile clients, so having the web-interface keeping the same style/layout seems like the best thing to do i think. Also the web-vault is of course still code from 8Bit, with just minor adjustments, i don’t see a big issue in leaving it there. If i’m not mistaken, spoken with the founder of Bitwarden regarding this, and they agreed upon adding a (Powered by Vaultwarden) message to be enough.

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