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Telemetry is now optional in Warp
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Re: Telemetry is now optional in Warp
#12> At this time, Warp continues to require login. I don't want to stoke the flames again, but even VS Code doesn't force you to log-in. Microsoft knows that blocking you from using basic functionality of a free app is a bad user experience. It's good that you're letting people opt-in to a more private experience, but that was hardly the largest problem I could see the last time this was brought up. From where I'm stan…
Zach from Warp here. Thanks for the thoughtful feedback.
Re: login, I get the concern and we are exploring product options that let folks preview warp without login.
From a product perspective our goal is to make the terminal cloud-native and have a way of facilitating collaboration, and it's not really possible to build that without user identity. Specifically, login allows us to build cloud-oriented features that make the terminal have a concept of “your stuff” and “your team’s stuff” – for example Block Sharing. This is the same reason other collaborative apps like Figma and Github require login. We do get the concerns though and understand that this is not traditionally how a terminal has functioned and that it will make some users uncomfortable. But on the whole we feel like it's the right way to push the command line experience forward.
Re: configuration issues, we are trying as fast as we can to fix them. It's hard technically to both innovate on the command-line and maintain complete backwards compatibility, but that is our goal.
Re: Mac only, this is also really just a limitation of eng bandwidth, not a product strategy. We are 100% planning on bringing warp to more platforms as fast as we can.
Re: Telemetry is now optional in Warp
#13> At this time, Warp continues to require login. I don't want to stoke the flames again, but even VS Code doesn't force you to log-in. Microsoft knows that blocking you from using basic functionality of a free app is a bad user experience. It's good that you're letting people opt-in to a more private experience, but that was hardly the largest problem I could see the last time this was brought up. From where I'm stan…
Thank you for the very thoughtful comment. The required login I think is enough to scare me off. Which is a shame. It’s the first time I’ve heard of this terminal and the features listed intrigue me enough to want to explore more.
If you're just looking to pimp your terminal and sand off some of the edges, fish is a great shell replacement to try: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell
A lot of Mac users either don't know they're using zsh by default now or simply don't take advantage of it's scripting language/featureset. For those people, I think fish makes a compelling upgrade. No log-in, just a slightly nicer interactive terminal prompt.
Re: Telemetry is now optional in Warp
#14My current terminals, iTerm2, xfce4-terminal, and Alacritty, don’t have telemetry. What am I missing out on here?
Seriously, what the actual fuck? Have enough developers really been conditioned to accept surveillance and pervasive centralized control that someone thought this was a good idea? The fact that the telemetry code even exists is a problem - both in case of a bug that turns it on, and what it says about the proclivities of its developers. It's utterly inappropriate to refer to this as "the Rust-based terminal", as if t…
Scrolling through their website it looks like they are offering an enterprise terminal that's not meant for personal use.
Re: Telemetry is now optional in Warp
#15Very happy to see that there is the ability to opt out of telemetry; however, I can't recommend this to anyone while it requires logging in.
Re: Telemetry is now optional in Warp
#16My current terminals, iTerm2, xfce4-terminal, and Alacritty, don’t have telemetry. What am I missing out on here?
Paying the developers.
Re: Telemetry is now optional in Warp
#17My current terminals, iTerm2, xfce4-terminal, and Alacritty, don’t have telemetry. What am I missing out on here?
Business model: Juicero for bash.
Re: Telemetry is now optional in Warp
#18> At this time, Warp continues to require login. I don't want to stoke the flames again, but even VS Code doesn't force you to log-in. Microsoft knows that blocking you from using basic functionality of a free app is a bad user experience. It's good that you're letting people opt-in to a more private experience, but that was hardly the largest problem I could see the last time this was brought up. From where I'm stan…
Zach from Warp here. Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. Re: login, I get the concern and we are exploring product options that let folks preview warp without login. From a product perspective our goal is to make the terminal cloud-native and have a way of facilitating collaboration, and it's not really possible to build that without user identity. Specifically, login allows us to build cloud-oriented features that m…
One can have identity without centralization; look at PKI. I don’t need to create an account with some website in order to use SSH.
Re: Telemetry is now optional in Warp
#19Honestly been a Mac user since I could be defined as a user and I'm still yet to install iTerm over Terminal.app, so I'm curious: who is this for, really?
Honestly, you're in a minority. Most Mac users install and use iTerm2, Alacritty, (my favorite) WezTerm, etc...
So obviously, there is a market for terminals. Warp though, definitely not for me.
Re: Telemetry is now optional in Warp
#20Is this your selling point? "Rust based"? That's how people in the "Rust world" advertise their products? That's how people refer to their work nowadays? Rust-based, there lies the value?