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New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
347 by drunner | 169 comments on Hacker News.
I have been using postman offline without an account for a long time. Today when I opened the program it asked me to create an account. When I declined, it wiped all my collections and everything else. All I have is a 'history' to work with and try to piece back together all the variables and collections that I had setup. I relented and created an account, but it did not recover anything. Beware! Update: I was able to manually import/restore using a backup I found in ~/.config/Postman but I have no trust for continued use of this tool. Any alternatives that I can migrate to?

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