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Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 8:51 PM UTC

RamblingCTO wrote: post #9

altairprime wrote: post #5

This 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.

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Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by danfarrelly » Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 8:56 PM UTC

Our team has just started to use this a bit more and I really liked the .insomnia dir in our projects. This is pretty sad as we've seen this path with Postman - I ~~thought~~ hoped that since Kong had plenty of other viable revenue streams that Insomnia would stay out of this nonsense. Disappointing.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom » Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 8:56 PM UTC

It was a month or so that I heared of Insomnia, when we were looking for easier alternatives to Postman, which is much further down the VC-funded, "gotta monetise those users" trajectory.

But they're trying to catch up, maybe?

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by heh » Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 9:02 PM UTC

That's amazingly terrible, I get the business case but this is the sort of thing you don't roll out in an automatic update....and you talk to your customers and stakeholders about first. Just wow.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by stringtoint » Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 9:05 PM UTC

Curious to know what advantages Insomnia has/had over Postman beyond being MIT licensed.

Postman's initial startup time could be a bit faster but other than this I'm not missing much (yet). I used it for years occasionally before finally creating an account not so long to sync my requests across devices.

BTW: Jetbrains IDEs like WebStorm also have an integrated HTTP client.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by joeyhage » Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 9:10 PM UTC

Restfox [1] has a similar UI to insomnia and works well. Not affiliated with Restfox

[1] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by cwdegidio » Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 9:11 PM UTC

PH95VuimJjqBqy wrote: post #4

what 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?

Paw is always an option if you are on a Mac... I don't know if it available on PC

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by dochne » Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 9:12 PM UTC

My understanding is that Postman unfortunately pulled the same thing lately, so that's unfortunately a no-go for you.

I've previously had good experiences with Paw (now RapidAPI) - https://paw.cloud/, but given that they are closed source and have started giving away the software rather than charging for it, I'm not filled with optimism they won't do a similar rug pull.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by quic5 » Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 9:19 PM UTC

It’s still MIT licensed right? Seems like we need a Vscodium for Insomnia

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by nokeya » Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 9:38 PM UTC

stringtoint wrote: post #15

Curious to know what advantages Insomnia has/had over Postman beyond being MIT licensed. Postman's initial startup time could be a bit faster but other than this I'm not missing much (yet). I used it for years occasionally before finally creating an account not so long to sync my requests across devices. BTW: Jetbrains IDEs like WebStorm also have an integrated HTTP client.

Absence of all this bullshit about accounts, clouds and telemetry like in postman. It was just a tool to send requests I wanted when I wanted