I’ve been sharing notebook links to old.observablehq.com because I currently don’t have the bandwidth to verify that they’ll work in 2.0 (I continue to use the old UI until feature parity has been restored).
Just now I noticed that old.observablehq.com will always redirect to observablehq.com for logged out visitors. I understand that y’all are trying to nudge users towards the new UI, but this redirect feels very heavy-handed to me and makes me lose trust that my notebooks will continue to work in the near future.
We were receiving a massive amount of bot/crawler traffic on Old Observable, which doesn’t have as effective bot defenses as New Observable, so we made the decision to redirect signed-out traffic. My apologies for the disruption.
Which features are you waiting for? It is just the viewof interpolation into Markdown and HTML cells as you mentioned previously, or is it other things? And are you sure those features are coming soon? We published our planned upcoming features but I can’t guarantee that all of these features will be available soon, so you might be waiting for a long time.
At a minimum everything that’s listed under Editing and Inspection. If feasible I’d also add linking to individual blocks which doesn’t seem to be supported in 2.0. And I don’t mind waiting, as for me the 1.0 UI still offers a very low-friction experience.