Thank you again. I read your feedback previously, but it’s always good to hear it restated and to see if anything has changed as you’ve had more time to familiarize yourself with the New interface.
Your list aligns well with our priorities and we’re working on most everything as quickly as we can!
I just pushed a change to put the comments section below the notebook rather than relegating it to a side panel. Hopefully that will make it easier to read comments and encourage more conversation (while still avoiding comments intruding into the content of the notebook).
if we could improve the time it takes to load notebooks after a period of inactivity, that would also be welcome
I’ve not heard this or experienced this before… when is loading a notebook slow? And what do you mean by “load… after a period of inactivity”? And is it all notebooks or only certain (computationally expensive) ones?
I have difficulty figuring out how to escape from the chat interface after clicking it open.
Another user reported this, too; I replied:
The way to exit a chat is the same as exiting a notebook: you choose to go somewhere else.
You can go back to your workspace using the workspace menu, create a new notebook, etc. Perhaps we should add a “back to workspace” button next to the workspace menu. It’s probably worth the space given how common this action is even though it’s redundant with the menu.
I guess it’s different expectations around a Chat being ephemeral versus a Notebook being persistent? But in Observable a Chat is a Notebook, and so a Chat is persisted, too. What sort of button are you expecting to exit the Chat? (Or are you talking about the Agent panel in the notebook editor?)