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.

Hi everyone. I have written in a bit privately on this change. And yeah - I agree - this is sorta the opposite of GitHub, which first charged for private notebooks, then made private free. Few precedents out there… I hope my two cents are welcome, and I’ll try to be novel in these statements, as ev…

I totally understand the need to generate revenue and have no problem with paid Pro accounts along with educational and academic discounts. But, I am very concerned that the details of this policy are focusing on short-term revenue at the expense of the longer-term viability of Observable. In the s…

[image] akrawitz: The new model is like having a clothing store without a changing room, and you tell new customers that if they want to try on the clothes they have to do it out in the open. Don’t you think the store would be more successful with a changing room where you are only allowed a lim…

This is a great way to drive out all of the would-be mid-tier customers. No more free private/unlisted? Fine, I’d be willing to pay for private/unlisted as long as everything else remained the same, and because the platform is so powerful. But remove publishing at the same time? And replace it with …

@ekaszubski We have a solution coming within the next few days to improve this. You will be able to continue editing your public notebooks and republish the changes when you are ready. We hope that this mode (we call it a paused mode for public notebooks) will work well for folks who want to work wi…

Again, I cant help but wonder why this wasn’t playtested and advertised before the policy change. We’ve had the Next opt-in experience, why not this time?

Does “paused” imply that the notebook is not working while editing it? If not, how would this be different than the current system?

[image] keystroke: Does “paused” imply that the notebook is not working while editing it? No - the notebook is still live and anyone can view the latest version; they just don’t view the latest version by default. Check out the following simple embed, for example: Not very exciting; it jus…

That is a much better experience, that works for me. Still makes me wonder about the change overall. As it seems one can create a new notebook and immediately pause it, and then only work on the latest version. It’s not quite private, as people can still browse to see latest changes in the works. F…

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That’s a great achievement Announcing Observable 2.0! - #4 by mbostock !

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