Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#1

Post by drunner » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 4:14 PM UTC

I have been using postman offline without an account for a long time. Today when I opened the program it asked me to create an account. When I declined, it wiped all my collections and everything else.

All I have is a 'history' to work with and try to piece back together all the variables and collections that I had setup.

I relented and created an account, but it did not recover anything. Beware!

Update: I was able to manually import/restore using a backup I found in ~/.config/Postman but I have no trust for continued use of this tool. Any alternatives that I can migrate to?

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#2

Post by james-revisoai » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 4:28 PM UTC

This happened to me 2 years ago, I think it has always been a bit of an issue.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#3

Post by mtmail » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 4:31 PM UTC

So they quickly followed what their competitor Insomnia did recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126

Related "Ask HN: Alternatives to Insomnia?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691914 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37725326

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#4

Post by isbvhodnvemrwvn » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 5:56 PM UTC

I have found Bruno (https://github.com/usebruno/bruno) to be a decent basic alternative with a nice bonus of being version control friendly, keep in mind that it's fresh and relatively unpolished though - for instance it doesn't ask you to save changes before closing the app.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#5

Post by toomuchtodo » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 5:59 PM UTC

isbvhodnvemrwvn wrote: post #4

I have found Bruno ( https://github.com/usebruno/bruno ) to be a decent basic alternative with a nice bonus of being version control friendly, keep in mind that it's fresh and relatively unpolished though - for instance it doesn't ask you to save changes before closing the app.

https://www.usebruno.com/

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701803

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#6

Post by ok_dad » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 6:07 PM UTC

Learn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too.

I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#7

Post by vorpalhex » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 6:10 PM UTC

PostWoman (now called Hopscotch) is a foss clone of (possibly an older version) Postman if you want a 1:1.

https://hoppscotch.io/

If you want "curl but friendly", I like httpie - https://httpie.io/cli

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#8

Post by mjepronk » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 6:12 PM UTC

Httpyac, to install the VS Code extension, just do:

ext install anweber.vscode-httpyac

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#9

Post by isbvhodnvemrwvn » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 6:15 PM UTC

ok_dad wrote: post #6

Learn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too. I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).

I would rather cycle thorough tools than deal with piss poor user experience of something like that.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

#10

Post by liyasthomas » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 6:16 PM UTC

We’re building an open-source Postman alternative.

1.6m+ users, 100k+ monthly active users, 55k+ GitHub stars.

Web app: https://hoppscotch.io GitHub: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch