Insomnia REST client now requires an account
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Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#2I thought about posting this half an hour ago but instead chose violence on their GitHub. Time to look into alternatives. I still can't comprehend this move. Seems Postman did well after they pulled this stunt so Kong does it as well.
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#3Discussion going on in https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577. Unlikely to change anything, though. Time to look at alternatives.
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#4what alternatives exist?
I literally just switched to insomnia due to postman doing this so I'm a bit stuck now. Do I go back to fiddler?
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#5This is the first I’ve ever heard of Insomnia. Here’s missing context that a blog post about this could have included, to save everyone paging through yet another GitHub issue FP.
Insomnia 8.0.0-rc1 was released today: https://insomnia.rest/changelog
The business that ships this codebase is migrating all instances from cloud-optional to cloud-required:
> The challenge is that we cannot continue to offer a great product with all these capabilities while working on an abstraction layer that supports two different storage backends for all data in Insomnia, adds too much complexity to the whole product.
Existing non-cloud users who wish to continue operating without the cloud will need to downgrade to 2023.5.8 to continue accessing their data:
https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/tag/core%402023.5....
HN user ‘RamblingCTO’ (see below) is the author of the GitHub issue.
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#6what alternatives exist? I literally just switched to insomnia due to postman doing this so I'm a bit stuck now. Do I go back to fiddler?
Not exactly the same, but I switched from Insomnia to Hurl.
https://hurl.dev/
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#7what alternatives exist? I literally just switched to insomnia due to postman doing this so I'm a bit stuck now. Do I go back to fiddler?
I ditched all these in favour of curl or xh a couple of years ago. Keep my recipes in shell scripts with documentation. Solves everything for me.
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#8what alternatives exist? I literally just switched to insomnia due to postman doing this so I'm a bit stuck now. Do I go back to fiddler?
Bruno maybe? (https://www.usebruno.com/ && https://github.com/usebruno/bruno)
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#9This is the first I’ve ever heard of Insomnia. Here’s missing context that a blog post about this could have included, to save everyone paging through yet another GitHub issue FP. Insomnia 8.0.0-rc1 was released today: https://insomnia.rest/changelog The business that ships this codebase is migrating all instances from cloud-optional to cloud-required: > The challenge is that we cannot continue to offer a great produ…
Even worse, before you could use it without an account. Now it locks you out of your data after the update. You need to create an account to get back your data.
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#10what alternatives exist? I literally just switched to insomnia due to postman doing this so I'm a bit stuck now. Do I go back to fiddler?
Thunder Client VS Code extension.