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Insomnia shittified. Insomnium is the fork (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Tiuku@sopuli.xyz to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Insomnia, an API development/debugging/testing tool, has been thoroughly enshittified. It now requires a cloud account to use, even though most of the use is just sending requests from your local machine (to servers often running on localhost too).

Luckily it was OSS so we have a new fork without the cloud "features": Insomnium

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[-] iso@lemy.lol 33 points 11 months ago

Nice! Insomnia was getting shittier in every update. Both insomnium and bruno looks good. Thanks 🙏

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. I switched from Postman because all I wanted, damnit, was to paste a cURL command as a template and go from there.

I know this isn't a rare request, because back when I started, it was one of three advertised features, and there were official Insomnia video guides on it.

For years, every goddamn update made it harder and harder. It's now completely unintuitive to do, if you don't know how it's done.

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

[-] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 11 months ago

An electrone app for REST testing? Like running a freight train to move around a couch.

[-] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 14 points 11 months ago

Valid criticism. I would be down for e.g a QT based alternative, but I'm not aware of any :/

[-] RollForInitiative@feddit.de 13 points 11 months ago

Great to hear, i didn't know Insomnia also went the way of forcing cloud integration (which is also a huge security issues with the usage of credentials etc.) along with Postman. Our company actually suggested Insomnia as an alternative to Postman upon banning the latter, but they might revise that recommendation to Insomnium now.

Insomnium is also the name of a great melodic death metal band by the way: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Insomnium/2332

[-] Pfnic@feddit.ch 12 points 11 months ago

What's with the enshittification of all those API testing tools? Can't we just have a nice GUI for cURL that doesn't feel the need to reinvent the wheel and make money?

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

First, thank you for the great fork, its always good to see true open-source forks of things. But...

I'm confused. I've been using Insomnia for ages everyday and I'm on the latest version is there's no login:

Only those buttons there, but I haven't seen any popup or attempt to make me login. Can anyone elaborate on this?

[-] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

8.2.0? Don't upgrade if you aren't there yet!

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah, I just upgraded to Insomnium. Just a PSA: if you're on Insomnia export your data BEFORE installing Insomnium as it will obliterate your Insomnia installation and you're going to lose your collections if you haven't exported it before.