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.
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:
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.
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.
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.