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Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by pseudalopex »

isbvhodnvemrwvn wrote: post #146
pseudalopex wrote: post #97

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> Fully offline. There is telemetry. And I didn't find opt in or even opt out code. > lightweight Could you quantify? I never saw a lightweight Electron app.

I tracked this through the code. Telemetry is set up here: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/blob/main/packages/bruno-a... It uses next.js config which is here: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/blob/main/packages/bruno-a... I don't know when this is evaluated, but it seems like if you set ENV=dev it should disable it.

Until the developer changes it with no notice.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by okeuro49 »

helloanoop wrote: post #107
pseudalopex wrote: post #97

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> Fully offline. There is telemetry. And I didn't find opt in or even opt out code. > lightweight Could you quantify? I never saw a lightweight Electron app.

> There is telemetry. yes, its miniscule. one ping (and that too once in a day) that indicates that an anonymous user opened the app. No other usage details, micro interactions or anything else is tracked. Sure - in the future we will provide option to turn this off too. > Could you quantify? I never saw a lightweight Electron app. relatively, compared to the other electron monsters out there. You are definitely not…

I think Electron is fine for an application like this. Not much to gain for making a completely bespoke platform UI for a dev tool, and a lot of pain.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by fayalalebrun »

uhaleks wrote: post #135

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It almost works on Linux with Wine. The text fields are messed up though.

However, I do not know why you would use this considering the alternatives available. It is closed source, no GraphQL support, and has cloud "features". The only pro for me is low RAM use.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by user6275726E »

fosk wrote: post #120
LightFog wrote: post #102

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“So. Much. Noise.“ This comes across as very dismissive of your user’s concerns. Maybe worth giving your ego a break for a few hours and embracing empathy for your users.

It's not about ego, it's about clarity and overall sustainability of the product. Reality is that Insomnia offers plenty of ways to still run locally, but now it does it in a sustainable way that allows us to improve the product even more. I forgot to add that users can also create "Private Environments" which are always local and never synchronized with Insomnia Sync (in the cloud) or Git Sync.

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Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by user6275726E »

12345hn6789 wrote: post #130
fosk wrote: post #100

So. Much. Noise. An update on Insomnia 8.x here: * Insomnia can be used locally-only with Scratch Pad. * Insomnia can be used with an account without sharing any data using Git Sync (the data is in your Git repository, wherever that is hosted). * Insomnia can be used with an account and without Git Sync in a fully end-to-end encrypted way (E2EE). Nobody can read your data. * Insomnia stores your account information i…

Calling valuable user feedback noise is not the wisest decision. But luckily for you I will be quiet after this. My team and I will be moving off of insomnia. That should quiet things.

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Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by helloanoop »

pseudalopex wrote: post #97
helloanoop wrote: post #54

Try Bruno - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno - Free and Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs - It is lightweight with MIT license - Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem - Use git for collaboration - No cloud sync. Fully offline. PS: I am the creator of this project

> Fully offline. There is telemetry. And I didn't find opt in or even opt out code. > lightweight Could you quantify? I never saw a lightweight Electron app.

Another benefit of electron is that it allows the community to quickly contribute and improve the project via PRs

In the last 5 days, Bruno received 25 PRs. I've already merged 21 of them and shipped multiple releases.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by [deleted] »

okeuro49 wrote: post #152
helloanoop wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There is telemetry. yes, its miniscule. one ping (and that too once in a day) that indicates that an anonymous user opened the app. No other usage details, micro interactions or anything else is tracked. Sure - in the future we will provide option to turn this off too. > Could you quantify? I never saw a lightweight Electron app. relatively, compared to the other electron monsters out there. You are definitely not…

I think Electron is fine for an application like this. Not much to gain for making a completely bespoke platform UI for a dev tool, and a lot of pain.

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Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by uhaleks »

fayalalebrun wrote: post #155
uhaleks wrote: post #135

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It almost works on Linux with Wine. The text fields are messed up though. However, I do not know why you would use this considering the alternatives available. It is closed source, no GraphQL support, and has cloud "features". The only pro for me is low RAM use.

NativeRest is currently actively developing and GraphQL support will of course be added in the future. There will also be a version for Mac.

Yes, cloud workspaces are supported, but if user doesn't create them or login, then no data will be sent to the servers.

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