Desktop client - what is it for

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The desktop client is great to have in case the Bitwarden server ever goes down

Is bitwarden server down?

I am getting the error message “An unhandled server error has occurred” when trying send any data to bitwarden. Basically I cannot make any changes to my vault. This is happening on different isps and across browser plugins web vault. Is there a status page anywhere?