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So they quickly followed what their competitor Insomnia did recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126

Related "Ask HN: Alternatives to Insomnia?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691914 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37725326

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Insomnia doesn’t wipe out your stuff if you don’t create an account though.

Plenty of users reported that updating, being prompted to create an account, and then refusing denied them access to their requests.

Postman doesn't either, but it doesn't tell you where the backup is. Same deceptive shite.

Your Scratch Pad data is safe and accessible. It can be Migrated to a new Workspace, once you create an account, using the 'Cog Icon > Settings > Data > Migrate data' menu option.

Alternatively, it can be Exported from the Lightweight API Client(signed out version) using the 'Cog Icon > Settings > Data > Export data' menu options.

I'm assuming you work for Postman. I hope you know that because of this, as well as the account requirement, other REST tools are going to eat your lunch. I don't think this was a good move.

Appreciate the feedback. Have a lovely day.

If you updated to v8 and missed the one small text link to export your data before creating an account, then all of your data was gone. Fortunately you could go to Github and download an old version.

If you created an account all of the data was still there. By default the "scratchpad" that did not require an account would not show anything.

It effectively does. You can't access it on the latest version without an account. So either downgrade or make an account.

Postman did it first, unless I'm missing something.

yep, Insomnia was the alternative to Postman, now the cycle continues...

Which is kinda interesting, in that I know folks who started using Insomnia because postman started enshittification first...

Sad Insomnia made it a race

Is there a duopoly play happening here?

Reminds me of Dark - "The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end." – Adam

Hope Bruno will deliver us from this never-ending cycle.

Postman is rolling out updates over time, for many people they only saw the changes now, a couple weeks after the roll-out started.

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