Bitwarden: Avoid at all costs (outage issue)
This is absolute nonsense. 
Bitwarden has worked absolutely perfectly for me until now, their clients work just fine and it&#x27;s the password manager I always suggest to people around me.<p>I do both, self-host vaultwarden for a non-profit and have Bitwarden premium for personal use. A short while ago our server got nearly nuked and our Vaultwarden was down for several days, everyone in the org still could access all of our personal and shared passwords just fine, the extension and the clients stored all the necessary data offline and let us work uninterrupted until we restored the service ( ironically, it held the server&#x27;s cloud provider credentials too ).<p>I suspect that in case of a complete outage or while not connected to the internet the client will work just fine, but on this instance something got messed up on the autentication&#x2F;authorization side, so your client tried to authenticate to their server to sync up&#x2F;do whatever it needs, since the server was not down but experiencing problems it received an error and logged you out.<p>I would argue this is by design, If the server returns an error while logging in there&#x27;s probably a good reason, and especially in case of an organization account, you shouldn&#x27;t have access to the passwords anymore.<p>You seem to have had major problems, but I assume it&#x27;s likely your fault.
You should not store all the means of accessing an account in a single place, I too store TOTPs on Bitwarden, but that&#x27;s just for convenience, I have them on my phone Authenticator app too. 
But most importantly, as the name suggest, recovery codes ( which is what i assume your &quot;temp verification passwords&quot; are ) should be kept safe and in a separate place altogether, preferably printed even.<p>What you&#x27;re describing here looks like nothing more than an outage, a thing that literally everyone and their dog experiences, from the non-profit like us to AWS, Microsoft, Google and Cloudflare.<p>Surely nothing to scream &quot;Avoid at all costs&quot; about.