I don’t know if this is the right place to post this. But I don’t know where to put it on this forum. And I think this discussion is important. It needs to be opened. So… Notebooks, Framework and now Canevas. So many new features. But Observable cloud depreciated. Notebook gratuity, then no, then y…

One thing that attracted me initially to Observable was the the runtime was MIT licensed ( GitHub - observablehq/runtime: The reactive dataflow runtime that powers Observable Framework and Observable notebooks ) which means that if the business failed, then there was some hope of continuity for the ti…

Some open questions on the Framework discussion board as well. In hindsight what really took some air out of the community was the flip-flopping on the notebook publishing defaults and paid plans as well as less prominently featuring trending notebooks. On the tech side, I remember the mobile edit…

[image] tomlarkworthy: he repository holding the source code to the file format and backup infrastructure is here . My personal notebooks are backed up here . I am quite happy with using Observable as my primary code store. They have communicated the notebooks will not receive new development but…

[image] dleeftink: Some open questions on the Framework discussion board as well. In hindsight what really took some air out of the community was the flip-flopping on the notebook publishing defaults and paid plans as well as less prominently featuring trending notebooks. On the tech side, I re…

Sorry, I can’t find any evidence they said no future development. Last noteworthy thing was that they would find a way to update Notebooks to be Framework compatible but I can’t find that either.

thanks @neocarto for posting this. I have the same feeling you expressed and am also evaluating how much to invest in new notebooks (which I love). Thanks @tomlarkworthy for sharing jumpgate - I will happily try it out!

[image] neocarto: For me, Notebooks are a really great tool. It’s Observable’s strong point. I love them. Notebooks create a community. They enable everyone to progress and help the ecosystem to grow. But I get the impression that it’s not evolving any more. No new libs. No new features. It’s as…

Will chime in as I’m a very causal user so I see changes late and after the fact. Notebooks, Plot have been absolute rockstar products IMO. No complaints and I have loved them. I started on D3 on my local machine and graduated to Notebooks (which had a learning curve, but it was worth it). Framewor…

Apologies for not replying sooner, but we’ve been working on next-generation notebooks and I wanted to wait until we had something meaningful to share! I posted an Observable Notebooks 2.0 announcement thread , but here’s a direct link to the Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview announcement . …

[image] mbostock: I posted an Observable Notebooks 2.0 announcement thread , Did you? I get a “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private” message.

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