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Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

by archibaldJ on 9/29/23, 6:49 PM with 49 comments

• by typosaur on 9/29/23, 7:51 PM

  Do you have a plan to maintain it long-term or is it just a fork in sake of a fork?

  Other than that, for UI/manual testing I'd recommend Restfox or Bruno and ezy for gRPC. Hurl and Step CI for automated testing

  Restfox: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

  Bruno: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

  ezy: https://github.com/getezy/ezy

  Step CI: https://github.com/stepci/stepci

  Hurl: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

  Upd: added links

• by user6275726E on 9/29/23, 9:18 PM

  Hey everyone.. wish we were here discussing something more positive. however...

  I happen to know that the Kong CTO is extremely obsessed with GitHub stars and vanity metrics so he can impress investors (e.g. check out his twitter to see him bragging about star counts).

  The best thing you can do to get Kong's attention on how horribly they have handled this situation is...

  unstar https://github.com/kong/insomnia

  ...and tell everyone you know to do the same...

  It's so so sad that it's come to this but if you haven't seen any of the CTO's responses to users... you're in for a ride. See the thread that dang posted here. The CTO's own words make it quite clear that he sees the Insomnia community as pests getting in the way of his IPO.

  It should be crystal clear to everyone paying attention that the leadership at Kong doesn't have a whole lot of respect for their user's private data. I was hoping they'd take a moment to reflect after the extreme backlash but instead they've just been arguing with users nonstop while some of us are sitting here filling out compliance reports on the accidentally exfiltrated data.

• by makestuff on 9/29/23, 7:38 PM

  Here is the main Github issue with a lot of context: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577

  It was later turned into a discussion here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590

  However, the discussion was closed so newer issues have been created.

• by dang on 9/29/23, 8:15 PM

  Recent and related:

  Insomnia REST client now requires an account - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126 - Sept 2023 (123 comments)

• by user3939382 on 9/29/23, 7:46 PM

  Marco should get a job with Unity or Bud Light.

  I highly recommend the HTTP client in the JetBrains IDEs. It’s come a long way fast, is under very active development, and a breath of fresh air. Even though it’s a feature it beats the standalone products IMHO.

• by patrikcsak on 9/29/23, 7:28 PM

  insomnia was my favorite http client until it started deleting entire projects: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/5167

• by laurensr on 9/29/23, 7:48 PM

  What is it with generic HTTP clients and their data/account hunger? And why has no fully selfhosted team collaboration tool stood up?

• by jayFellows on 10/10/23, 12:43 AM

  Added to a GitHub list of Insomnia alternatives: https://github.com/stars/jaymakes11/lists/insomnia-alternati...

• by jonrosner on 10/9/23, 11:06 AM

  Shameless plug: This is why I created Yaade. A self-hosted alternative to Postman and Insomnia. Unfortunately, being OSS is not enough anymore. The rug-pulls will keep happening. Remember: If you don't host it, you don't own it!

  Check out Yaade on GitHub. Will be interested to hear what you guys think.

• by greatgib on 9/30/23, 11:50 AM

  I'm grateful for the original creator of Insomnia to have provided a tool that was quite nice and still light.

  But what they did it's really bad in the sense of screwing users that trusted you once you get enough of them.

  In addition, the fork is probably good, because for some months I was thinking that there are a few simple improvements that could be done to reap great benefits. And it should now be easier to do that. Also I'm quite sure that the current version was crippled in term of usability to support getting a paid license.

• by Sleaker on 10/10/23, 3:35 AM

  Huge thanks! I have been using Insomnia for quite a long time because postman never made sense to me with all the online data sync. I just want to keep everything myself, so really appreciate the insomnium fork here.

• by whiskeytuesday on 9/29/23, 7:24 PM

  I guess I haven't updated insomnia in a while or something as I was blissfully unaware that I needed a replacement until just now. Looks good!

• by postalrat on 9/29/23, 7:37 PM

  My feature request: a way to generate curl commands, fetch, etc. Browsers can do it, why not a dedicated client for making http calls?

• by 12345hn6789 on 9/29/23, 9:01 PM

  Thanks for this. Luckily I found out insomnia was (fully) enshittified through hacker news and not the forced update. I'll backup my files and move over to this fork soon.

• by captn3m0 on 9/29/23, 8:21 PM

  Please provide ASAR buildS.

• by markcollin on 10/2/23, 7:13 AM

  forks are hard, but I wish you the best.

• by Keyframe on 9/29/23, 7:40 PM

  Thanks!