enshittification / needing an account

[ChristianSch]

Expected Behavior

I would like to be able to use insomnia without an account or be warned BEFORE an update that you'll lock me out of my stuff.

Actual Behavior

you just locked me out

Reproduction Steps

No response

Is there an existing issue for this?

• [X] I have searched the issue tracker for this problem.

Additional Information

I really really do know that this is not the place, but wtf guys, come on? Have you learned nothing from Postman? Their enshittification gave you the traffic to grow in the first place and now you're doing the same shit?

Insomnia Version

v8.0.0

What operating system are you using?

macOS

Operating System Version

macOS sonoma

Installation method

download

Last Known Working Insomnia version

< 8.0.0

[CleverCoder]

Time to fork.

Brilliant. Seriously, has someone created a fork yet?

It needs a new, clever name... something that respects the open source community and won't exploit the users. Honoring "keep it simple", and "do the right thing". Here's some ideas:

• Awakened
• RESTGuard
• TranquilREST 🤷

[lodi-g]

Hi @subnetmarco,

Good that you want to improve users' life. Not good that you force it onto everyone.

I won't repeat what everyone said (E2EE or not - I won't sign in), but rather add this: I contributed to Insomnia in the past and would have loved to contribute again. I'll not consider it anymore with this move.

[GeeDat]

I keep hearing that I can downgrade to a previous version of Insomnia and get my projects and environments back. How do I do that?

[lh0817]

Hey Guys,

Here a downgrade instruction as temporary workaround for the constellation Ubuntu/Snap Insomnia package:

sudo snap revert insomnia
sudo snap refresh --hold insomnia

The second command holds refreshes of insomnia indefinitely.

I hope it helps some people to be able to work today.

[alinmiron]

Stick the cloud up your arse! I was using Insomnnia because it was not forcing me to do crap. Hope for a giant solar flare that would fk up all the "clouds".

[bcersows]

I keep hearing that I can downgrade to a previous version of Insomnia and get my projects and environments back. How do I do that?

Depending on your system.

Here's some previous comments' instructions:

• Ubuntu: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577#issuecomment-1738650217
• Mac/Homebrew: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577#issuecomment-1738351378

Important to immediately disable auto-update after downgrading.

[krlz-dev]

Your are going to become postman soon :O and this was one of the main reasons I run from postman to Insomnia, to avoid all this nonsense, I lose many of the things I was working in this release, moving to https://hoppscotch.io/ for now

[Mark-Labuschagne]

Honestly, I moved from postman to Insomnia to have a simple and local API tester. Insomnia was perfect, I loved it. What a shame.

[tobias-feil-plana]

You should be ashamed of yourself. Insomnia was a trusted name for many developers in my friend circle and some of them were converted to Insomnia by me, being a nice alternative to Postman that doesn't suck your data. Now we're back to square one and an alternative like that doesn't exist anymore.

[Windowsfreak]

Insomnia is DEAD after this update.

Many people moved over from Postman, just to discover today that it's just its evil sister.

[mashaal]

oh fuck

[Rzpeg]

I will have to explore a self-hosted https://hoppscotch.io/ now.

[aniforprez]

Man how was the flow so poorly thought out? I've been working with some local collections for almost years now and all of that data just disappearing in the scratch pad almost gave me a heart attack. I made an account just so I could export my collections because the "wizard" doesn't let me go back to the export button and the scratch pad doesn't automatically import my collections that I NEVER synced to the cloud. Now my collections are taking up space on your servers just because of me being forced into this. I'm sure SOMEONE asked for this but then why was almost zero consideration given for local users before someone made this thread? Plugins not working was an oversight?

I'm sorry I'm adding to the dogpile but I'm thoroughly disappointed in this decision and will join the droves of people looking for alternatives. I didn't ask for this and now I'm forced to look at an ugly purple banner for being a plebian refusing to opt into the cloud "experience". This is very, very disheartening. Please know that all this complaining is cause people love Insomnia and want it to be good but this is a severe downgrade.

Edit: I'm finding out you cannot even delete your collections from the server through the website. You HAVE to log into the Insomnia desktop app and delete your collections from there. I cannot delete the automatically created organisation or my account from the website. My only recourse is to delete my account completely in the hope that it also deletes my organisation and, transitively, my collections. Automatically dumping everything on my private workspace to a cloud, encrypted or not, sure was a decision huh.

I cannot believe how this app has transitioned to literally be the same as Postman overnight. Just as Postman also deleted their scratchpad and thoroughly gimped their offline capabilities, I have no doubt this will be the path for Insomnia. I'm completely migrating off this app. I'm checking out Bruno if anyone's interested.

Edit 2: I just got an email saying I'm not a collaborator on my Personal Workspace. Not that the workspace was deleted. I'm assuming now my collections are just stuck on the cloud permanently. I created another account with the same email and password and now the default workspace doesn't have my collections. There's no way to delete a workspace despite me being the sole "collaborator" and owner of a workspace. The create account workflow is also busted and doesn't connect properly to the desktop app. It doesn't properly redirect the auth credentials to the app after you select a subscription which means I have to copy paste the login URL. This is just poor form all around folks.

[baldurh]

Can someone clarify for me, if I upgrade to 8.0.0:

1. All my collections disappear?
2. I’m forced to sign up?
3. Will the collections appear again if I sign up?
4. If I sign up, are all my collections automatically uploaded to the cloud?
5. When collections are uploaded to the cloud, does that include the environment variables?

I’m mostly worried that at my workplace people will—without thinking—upgrade and sign up and all their collections—including environments—will be uploaded to the cloud.

[aniforprez]

Can someone clarify for me, if I upgrade to 8.0.0:

1. All my collections disappear?
2. I’m forced to sign up?
3. Will the collections appear again if I sign up?
4. If I sign up, are all my collections automatically uploaded to the cloud?
5. When collections are uploaded to the cloud, does that include the environment variables?

I’m mostly worried that at my workplace people will—without thinking—upgrade and sign up and all their collections—including environments—will be uploaded to the cloud.

1. As of writing this comment, all your collections are locked behind creating an account and are not moved to the scratchpad. Which means
2. Yes, you are forced to sign up to
3. See your collections again because
4. They are automatically uploaded to the cloud
5. Which does, mercifully, include your env vars

Yes @baldurh, arguably the worst thing about this whole fiasco is all your data being dumped to the cloud without your consent. They claim it's all end-to-end-encrypted behind a password you're forced to create but I did not ask for this so it's a moot point

[baldurh]

1. As of writing this comment, all your collections are locked behind creating an account and are not moved to the scratchpad. Which means
2. Yes, you are forced to sign up to
3. See your collections again because
4. They are automatically uploaded to the cloud
5. Which does, mercifully, include your env vars

Yes @baldurh, arguably the worst thing about this whole fiasco is all your data being dumped to the cloud without your consent. They claim it's all end-to-end-encrypted behind a password you're forced to create but I did not ask for this so it's a moot point

Thanks @aniforprez!

[ghost]

I would only like to say a big thank you for this update, because I would never have discovered https://hurl.dev/ without this change.

[DylanDelobel]

I was going to export all my Postman collection to Insomnia, Look like I will find another solution

[Ma-ve]

Much obliged turning Insomnia into ransomware! Ie., holding my data hostage unless I pay for it with my email address 👍.

[alfredoxperez]

Wow. I had a complex setup of requests. I heavily relied on Insomnia and was working to present this tool to a company for everyone to use with the setup I created, and now just gone. To say this situation is frustrating is an understatement.