[altairprime]

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]

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.

[fosk]

Here is a video that shows how to get access to your data without an account. https://www.loom.com/share/de7af6f9e06b4452a799a033604f9270?...

[RamblingCTO]

How about a disclaimer that you're the one that caused this mess? You're the CTO of Kong ...

[altairprime]

They already noted that in a well-read comment at the top of the post already, and continuing to be outraged at them in this thread is more likely to convince them to disregard your viewpoint than it is to change their mind.