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This is frankly a disastrous impact to the usability of Observable notebooks for Free Individuals (the new free tier). From the FAQ (https://talk.observablehq.c

by mbo 4y ago

This is frankly a disastrous impact to the usability of Observable notebooks for Free Individuals (the new free tier). From the FAQ (https://talk.observablehq.com/t/faq-october-2022-platform-change/7120 https://talk.observablehq.com/t/faq-october-2022-platform-ch...) Q: With live public notebooks, is there a way to stage edits before making them public? [...] For Free users, we also recommend that they fork the notebook (which would be public), make the edits and merge the changes back. Although the forked notebooks would be public, it would be a temporary notebook which could be deleted once merged. So Free Individuals just have to... break their live notebooks if they want to edit them? Like fine, kneecap your free product if you really need to force people to fork over cash. But Observable purports to be a platform that is trying to democratise data analysis and visualisation for the masses. Feels a bit like Wikipedia adding its own paid tier.

designpatternz 4y ago
> Observable purports to be a platform that is trying to democratise data analysis and visualisation for the masses. It is for profit
londons_explore 4y ago
> Wikipedia adding its own paid tier. I wouldn't put it past them... "Subscribe to Wikipedia Pro today, to see the most up to date articles (the free tier only gets to see 2 year old articles)."
jefftk 4y ago
> Wikipedia adding its own paid tier. Wikipedia does have a paid tier! It's a way that very large companies which consume Wikipedia data can query it more efficiently: https://enterprise.wikimedia.com https://enterprise.wikimedia.com https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/22/23178245/google-paying-wikimedia-foundation-information https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/22/23178245/google-paying-wi...
turtlebits 4y ago
There's no such thing as "free". Companies just are subsidizing consumer acquisition costs, until they decide not to.

by mbo 4y ago

designpatternz 4y ago

> Observable purports to be a platform that is trying to democratise data analysis and visualisation for the masses. It is for profit

londons_explore 4y ago

> Wikipedia adding its own paid tier. I wouldn't put it past them... "Subscribe to Wikipedia Pro today, to see the most up to date articles (the free tier only gets to see 2 year old articles)."

jefftk 4y ago

> Wikipedia adding its own paid tier. Wikipedia does have a paid tier! It's a way that very large companies which consume Wikipedia data can query it more efficiently: https://enterprise.wikimedia.com https://enterprise.wikimedia.com https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/22/23178245/google-paying-wikimedia-foundation-information https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/22/23178245/google-paying-wi...

turtlebits 4y ago

There's no such thing as "free". Companies just are subsidizing consumer acquisition costs, until they decide not to.