Today, users have received an email which says that after mid October, there will be a new paid offering : “This means that our free offerings will be for working in public and sharing with the community, and our paid offerings will support working in private as well as in public”. I’m not sure to u…

Precisely not. We no longer have MATLAB, SAS, Adobe Creative Cloud or Microsoft Office on our computers. Those days are over.

I don’t work at Observable but I’ve spoken to several folks there about these issues. So, in the interest of answering your question quickly, here’s my understanding. [image] keystroke: Are all my existing notebooks going to become public? No, definitely not. Private notebooks will stay priv…

Thank you @mcmcclur We created an FAQ and pinned it to the ‘Latest’ and ‘Announcement’ categories in the forum.

Observable’s raison d’être is to collaborate and share. That’s why I think this strategy is a really bad news for the community. There are several reasons for this. A creative process is always built in several phases. First, we think. Then we test things. And finally we produce. I’m not sure if th…

I feel the same way. I’m glad I’m not alone. If I discovered Observable now, I wouldn’t start using it as much, and I wouldn’t grow into a pro user. As a pro user and fan, I’m happy to start paying, but I feel forced to. And as “Republish” button is gone I’m also forced to relay on the fork featu…

Not getting into changes for free users, the removal of the “Publish” button on “public (unlisted)” notebooks seems to me like a really bad development for pro users too. We have a pro team with many “public (unlisted)” notebooks in production, and now it just got much harder to do edits on these n…

[image] bernardol: the removal of the “Publish” button on “public (unlisted)” notebooks seems to me like a really bad development for pro users too I raised pretty much this exact issue in this forum post . I hope this issue improves.

@neocarto , thank you for your thoughtful feedback and suggestions. We take all your feedback seriously and will certainly be monitoring and evaluating what changes we need to make to be true to our raison d’être. Collaboration and working together with data is a very big part of this. There are cer…

@oluckyman we will look into the merge bugs. We think we found the reason for that ‘Oops’ error, but if you can remember what sequence of events caused that for you, we will continue investigating.

I share the many of the concerns that have been expressed in this thread. I definitely hope that the company considers how publishing works in Pro accounts and how all users might want to experiment at least some in a non-public context. I also have to acknowledge being a little disappointed myself …

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I raised pretty much this exact issue in this forum post. I hope this issue improves.

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