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

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Post by skeeter2020 »

pests wrote: post #27

There are some extensions for VSCode that let you define your requests in a text file and has ways to run the file and show the data. Here's one I just found: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... Syntax looks like: GET https://example.com/comments/1 HTTP/1.1 ### GET https://example.com/topics/1 HTTP/1.1 ### POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1 content-type: application/json { "name":…

I use the VS Code REST extension a lot but it does lack some of the aspects that make Postman easier for teams and larger projects. It's super easy to define a "collection" as an .http page for smaller and one-off needs though.

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

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Post by shadowgovt »

redox99 wrote: post #32
liyasthomas wrote: post #10

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

Disappointing that there isn't a standalone program like Postman. I don't want to install an extension in my browser to handle CORS.

What's the issue with an extension?

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

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Post by skeeter2020 »

richbell wrote: post #33
mtmail wrote: post #3

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

Postman did it first, unless I'm missing something.

yep, Insomnia was the alternative to Postman, now the cycle continues...

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

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Post by mrguyorama »

enraged_camel wrote: post #57
mtmail wrote: post #3

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

Insomnia doesn’t wipe out your stuff if you don’t create an account though.

Plenty of users reported that updating, being prompted to create an account, and then refusing denied them access to their requests.

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

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

Is this all stuff that you had kept in your Scratchpad? I think Postman had been warning users for months that Scratchpad would be going away, and that you should migrate everything to a workspace.

I'm not saying the decision is right; personally I much preferred the scratch, because it didn't require a freaking network request every time I want to look at my API collections. I'm just saying, this didn't come out of nowhere.

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

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Post by petepete »

mortallywounded wrote: post #39
liyasthomas wrote: post #10

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

It's a non-starter for me if it requires an extension. I also think it's a matter of time before it goes the Insomnia/Postman route. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

It says on the page the the extension 'enhances the experience ' - it doesn't look like a requirement.

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

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Post by isbvhodnvemrwvn »

redox99 wrote: post #53
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.

This one is free from VC funding and promises to stay away from it. So it should not suffer from enshittification. See https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269

The one thing I'm afraid of is that it's a single maintainer project, and while they are active now, I'm not sure how this is going to fare in a few months or so.
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