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So this means that drafts will be immediately public or is it just notebooks that you publish “privately” through invitation, a shared link or something like th
by phforms 4y ago
So this means that drafts will be immediately public or is it just notebooks that you publish “privately” through invitation, a shared link or something like that? (seems more like the former to me, but I haven’t been able to confirm) [EDIT: it is confirmed that there will be no private drafts: https://talk.observablehq.com/t/new-policy/7098/2 https://talk.observablehq.com/t/new-policy/7098/2 ]
In that case, I will not be able to use Observable any longer. I am not ready to have my half-baked ideas, ongoing research and sketches floating around in public space; this would be very confusing to anyone on my profile and some of them contain private data I don’t want to share. But I also cannot afford to pay for another subscription, there is just so much these days that keeps adding up.
Observable has been a great experience, especially when I was focussing more on JS and data visualization and I enjoyed doing explorative work on the platform. I don’t like that privacy and “local-first” these days are considered features instead of defaults. There are many other things that provide enough value for people to pay for and I am very disappointed that Observable decided to force free users into sharing everything.