Keep configurations after update and stop recouring on boarding about continue HOT 6 CLOSED

A better explanation of why we are asking for sign-in is also included in the latest update, but to explain here as well: we tried as hard as possible to support a free trial without forcing sign-in, but at the end of the day there are too many people interested in abusing the server, who may not even be Continue users. We had to require sign in to prevent this, but we are only requiring sign-in for users who are using free trial models. If you remove all "provider": "free-trial" models from your config.json, we will never request this: https://docs.continue.dev/reference/Model%20Providers/freetrial#sign-in

Thanks for the explanation. That totaly makes sense. I just noticed the popup and was curious why this was needed. I already observed that I can just ignore the popup but its nice to know, that I can get rid of it completely.

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Yes, as far as I'm concerned this can be closed. Of course I can't be completely sure all issues are resolved because they didn't occur on every update. If I ever encounter similar behavior again I might just reopen this issue.

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I found that #1295 addresses similar issues. It is possible, that at least the reset of the tab completion setting is related to that.

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Another minor, unrelated question: For some time continue asks for access to my GitHub login. Why is that needed? I couldn't find anything in the documentation.

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@lufixSch thanks for bringing this up, and I'm sorry it caused you pain. I do believe that the issue you mentioned is likely related, and we're taking extra precautions to make sure that it doesn't happen again.

The onboarding process should also no longer happen on every reload and when it does for new users, in the latest versions, we've taken care to make sure that it doesn't actually overwrite existing models.

A better explanation of why we are asking for sign-in is also included in the latest update, but to explain here as well: we tried as hard as possible to support a free trial without forcing sign-in, but at the end of the day there are too many people interested in abusing the server, who may not even be Continue users. We had to require sign in to prevent this, but we are only requiring sign-in for users who are using free trial models. If you remove all "provider": "free-trial" models from your config.json, we will never request this: https://docs.continue.dev/reference/Model%20Providers/freetrial#sign-in

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glad to hear. I'll close the issue in a day or two if this seems resolved, since we've made a lot of improvements to the explanation since originally shipping this

but if there's anything small that could be made clearer, please lmk!

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