Lol we were literally working on approving Insomnia for company wide use to completely replace Postman only because it didn’t need an account.
I guess we can kiss Insomnia goodbye as an option now.
Insomnia REST client now requires an account
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Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#42Tell HN:
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#43Marco here, CTO at Kong (the parent company of Insomnia). You will see some of my replies in the GitHub issue where this conversation is taking place. I want to clarify a couple of things: 1) Insomnia can still be used locally in any version prior to this one. The data is there, and can be used. 2) Insomnia still has a local-only mode (Scratch Pad) that doesn't require any account, that anybody can use. A collection…
My experience:
1) Receive popup asking if I want to install the latest version (no warning of the consequences of doing so) which I accept
2) Be greeted by a 'sign in' screen as well as a new Scratchpad icon which doesn't contain any of my projects/collections/requests.. at this point I believe all my data has been wiped (and it probably would've been if I had uninstalled the app when I downgraded instead of overwriting the existing one)
3) Find comment in GitHub saying I can recover my data by downgrading to https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/tag/core%402023.5.... and update Preferences not to automatically download and install updates
4) Look for alternatives/wait for community fork
It's a shame because I have promoted your product to over a hundred classmates/coworkers/friends that were previously using Postman/HTTPie/curl.. even if you didn't financially benefit from my use then it also didn't cost you anything, and I provided a lot of free conversions (some of whom might be using your cloud solutions, no idea)..
At least version 2023.5.8 is almost perfect so I'll probably be happy with using that for decades if no better alternative appear.. only downside is that the generated code snippets are kinda shitty (especially for golang, and some obvious languages missing) and I guess I won't be benefiting from improvements made there.
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A couple of ideas I would personally pay for with the local version of Insomnia:
- Create my own code snippets (so I don't need to rewrite code generated from your Generate Client Code).
- Ability to create HTTP Request templates so you don't need to duplicate existing ones (which you can't do across collections as well).
Have more but I guess it would be a waste of time since you seem fully committed to your choice of violence ^_^
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#44Marco here, CTO at Kong (the parent company of Insomnia). You will see some of my replies in the GitHub issue where this conversation is taking place. I want to clarify a couple of things: 1) Insomnia can still be used locally in any version prior to this one. The data is there, and can be used. 2) Insomnia still has a local-only mode (Scratch Pad) that doesn't require any account, that anybody can use. A collection…
My experience: 1) Receive popup asking if I want to install the latest version (no warning of the consequences of doing so) which I accept 2) Be greeted by a 'sign in' screen as well as a new Scratchpad icon which doesn't contain any of my projects/collections/requests.. at this point I believe all my data has been wiped (and it probably would've been if I had uninstalled the app when I downgraded instead of overwrit…
Tomorrow we will ship a new version (8.1) with a better understanding around how to export data and how to use Scratch Pad because I agree we can improve clarity.
But if you only have one collection, Scratch Pad is still local only. So you can keep using Insomnia on Scratch Pad, still get product updates and it’s free.
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#45Another app that's trying to do too much. All I want is a basic GUI for curl with some organization and templating. I ditched Postman because they decided to go all enterprise subscription model on us, apparently I'll have to ditch Insomnia too. What a shame.
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#46This is very disappointing after migrating to Insomnia from Postman a couple of months ago. I did the migration even when my company provides Postman licenses for the employees because I don't need nor want the "collaboration" features, cloud sync (I have my backups covered, thanks) nor the telemetry.
Can anyone recommend an open source API client that is content being just an API client?
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#47Literally just ruined my day. Needed to run one quick query that I had saved and opened insomnia to that stupid login screen and empty scratch pad. Even for folks who had automatic updates on, this should have come with some kind of warning. So poorly handled. Boo.
That sucks. At least when Postman pushed this enshittification on its users it gave at least a couple of weeks warning before it happened.
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#48Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
My experience: 1) Receive popup asking if I want to install the latest version (no warning of the consequences of doing so) which I accept 2) Be greeted by a 'sign in' screen as well as a new Scratchpad icon which doesn't contain any of my projects/collections/requests.. at this point I believe all my data has been wiped (and it probably would've been if I had uninstalled the app when I downgraded instead of overwrit…
Tomorrow we will ship a new version (8.1) with a better understanding around how to export data and how to use Scratch Pad because I agree we can improve clarity. But if you only have one collection, Scratch Pad is still local only. So you can keep using Insomnia on Scratch Pad, still get product updates and it’s free.
> So you can keep using Insomnia on Scratch Pad, still get product updates and it’s free.
Sure, if I want to stare at a large purple 'Create an account' banner all day, and some three other locations in the UI in which I can click some variety of 'create an account'.
Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account
#50I just don't have the energy to find a new client and build up my collection again... How do I know that a random product won't sabotage my future use at some point in time? Do I really have to build everything myself to be safe?