[kiselitza]

Ah, yes, the cloud-dependent tool that forces you to pay per seat and log in for any type of collaboration is down when their cloud provider is.

Anyways, the folks have spoken, no need to double down. There are more than a dozen alternatives to it, and new ones are coming up.

I'm helping build a new one.

- Completely offline.

- Gives the ability to build reusable blocks (headers, query params, etc)

- Let's you document everything in Markdown.

- Imports your collections and cURLs.

https://voiden.md/

[kiselitza]

And yes. It's completely free. With plugin extensibility for anyone to build/install whatever they want.

The CEO committed to open-sourcing it, as well as to not monetize on anything that doesn't introduce operational costs to the team.

https://voiden.md/blog/why-we-rebuilt-bloated-api-tooling

[drcongo]

A little bit of feedback, I could barely read any of the text in the interface as the contrast is almost zero and the font is unbelievably small. So I tried Cmd+ to zoom the interface, but nothing happened, so I tried Cmd, to open the settings to see if there was a zoom level or contrast setting, nothing happened. I like the idea of it, but it's totally unusable.

[kiselitza]

Hi! Thx for that. Can you please open an issue with a screenshot here: https://github.com/voidenhq/feedback

What you're saying doesn’t sound familiar whatsoever, but I'd really like to look more into it.

[chuckadams]

Voiden looks really promising, so I installed it to get started, and here's my hot takes so far before even using it.

* The text is tiny for my old eyes. I figured there's probably a setting for it and hit Cmd-, and found there's no settings UI whatsoever. No keyboard shortcut either it seems, and no help menu either, so no searching for "keyboard" with Shift-Cmd-/

* .void files may be markdown, but no markdown editor will recognize it as such. Maybe support .void.md as well. I also couldn't find any way to edit the markdown source of a .void file from voiden, which is a bit ironic for a tool that loudly advertises the markdown format as a central feature.

* Could there be a block that expands into the full URL of the request and parameters above it (or perhaps as args)? How about another that renders as a cURL command, which would cover POST/PUT/PATCH requests nicely too. My API documentation always has cURL request examples and I detest writing them by hand.

* While I'm suggesting blocks, one that renders the response headers/body to the preceding request would also be handy. It should support a placeholder response that gets replaced when the request is actually run (and perhaps a "save" button to persist it in the markdown). Responses get long, so maybe have a max-height for the block and make it scrollable

I'm actually really excited about Voiden and hope these can be addressed. It has a similar feel to Jetbrains' .http format, but an evolutionary leap beyond it. It also feels really raw and unfinished.

[kiselitza]

Hi, thx for the feedback! Testing the settings (including different themes and font sizes as we speak). Some tweaks are been made on the responses side as well. As per the rest of your comments, some of these things have been discussed or touched upon, others have been just added to the discussion board :)