[HN Gopher] Insomnia REST client now requires an account
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Insomnia REST client now requires an account
Author : mmillin
Score : 44 points
Date : 2023-09-27 19:39 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| mead5432 wrote:
| Thoughtworks Technology Radar has Insomnia as a "Trial" in the
| issue that came out today because of Postman pushing for more
| things to live on their servers.
|
| While not quite the same, still feels like awkward timing.
|
| https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/tools/summary/insomnia
|
| *edited to add a link
| danfarrelly wrote:
| 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.
| SideburnsOfDoom wrote:
| 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?
| nde wrote:
| Discussion going on in
| https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577. Unlikely to change
| anything, though. Time to look at alternatives.
| RamblingCTO wrote:
| I thought about posting this half an hour ago but instead chose
| violence on their GitHub. Time to look into alternatives. I still
| can't comprehend this move. Seems Postman did well after they
| pulled this stunt so Kong does it as well.
| quic5 wrote:
| It's still MIT licensed right? Seems like we need a Vscodium for
| Insomnia
| altairprime wrote:
| 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
| product with all these capabilities while working on an
| abstraction layer that supports two different storage backends
| for all data in Insomnia, adds too much complexity to the whole
| product._
|
| Existing non-cloud users who wish to continue operating without
| the cloud will need to downgrade to 2023.5.8 to continue
| accessing their data:
|
| https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/tag/core%402023.5....
|
| HN user 'RamblingCTO' (see below) is the author of the GitHub
| issue.
| RamblingCTO wrote:
| 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.
| [deleted]
| heh wrote:
| 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.
| stringtoint wrote:
| 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.
| nokeya wrote:
| 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
| CrimsonRain wrote:
| Ignoring everything else, postman UX is worse than anything
| I've ever used
| PH95VuimJjqBqy wrote:
| 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?
| paradox460 wrote:
| I've been using LiveBook and doing my requests and such in
| there. If you're not an Elixir shop you could probably do
| something similar with jupyter
| Badumtss8 wrote:
| https://hoppscotch.io/
|
| https://recipeui.com/
| dhpn wrote:
| Not exactly the same, but I switched from Insomnia to Hurl.
| https://hurl.dev/
| stonecharioteer wrote:
| I ditched all these in favour of curl or xh a couple of years
| ago. Keep my recipes in shell scripts with documentation.
| Solves everything for me.
| bdavisx wrote:
| This makes it relatively easy to chain calls if necessary -
| call one api to get a authn token and then call another with
| the token you just got. I think that postman and insomnia can
| do that, but it's a breeze from the command line.
| nerdo wrote:
| Thunder Client VS Code extension.
| ok_dad wrote:
| Unfortunately I think they're doing similar things with this
| extension. Last I checked, they locked some functionality
| behind a paywall that was formerly free and now they have
| several weird tiers of pricing with revenue limits and other
| bullshit.
|
| https://www.thunderclient.com/pricing
| cwdegidio wrote:
| Paw is always an option if you are on a Mac... I don't know if
| it available on PC
| paradox460 wrote:
| They were bought by rapid API so there might be a Mac version
| now
| jurassicfoxy wrote:
| I was really disappointed with the Rapid API buyout, but
| anyway, the client for Mac seems essentially unchanged, is
| the good news.
|
| The weird thing is that I can find NO mention of the client
| on their site: https://rapidapi.com/products/build-apis/
|
| Which, to me, is a bad sign. I suspect someday I'll be
| forced to give it up.
| pihug12 wrote:
| Bruno maybe? (https://www.usebruno.com/ &&
| https://github.com/usebruno/bruno)
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