Pluto.jl: 🐔🐔 Before posting an issue

[fonsp]

Hi!

Thank you for using Pluto! Our project is all about _human-centered computing_ - and since you are a _human_, we would love to hear what you think, even the small things like a button being too small.

What we like most is to talk with you directly! We set up a virtual room where you can come and chat with us, or with other users. Wait a minute for one of us to join 😊

Before posting an issue

Is your comment:

1. 🐙 Something we overlooked - post it in a new GitHub issue!
2. 🙋 A simple/difficult question with an objective answer - create a new GitHub discussion with label "Question"!
3. 💡 A suggestion or an opinion - use Pluto's built-in feedback system!

[fonsp]

What is the built-in feedback system?

At the bottom of your Pluto notebook, you will see this:

You can type a comment and press Send:

If you want, you can leave your email address:

The feedback will be sent _without needing to log in_ to our suggestion box:

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Why not post it to GitHub issues?

A low-entry way to give short feedback is important to us. We hope to learn about all the small details that make up the overall experience, but on their own, are probably not posted to GitHub issues. Getting the same feedback multiple times actually helps us understand which items are most common.

We are a small team working on the project in our spare time, and we need to spend that time _working on Pluto_. We find that Issues based on suggestions and opinions take the most amount of time for us to _discuss_, often because these are difficult questions to discuss _objectively_.

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We find subjective comments very useful, which is _why we have gone out of our way to build an anonymous feedback system directly into Pluto_. Please use it all the time!

xoxo,
the Pluto team

[Pocket-titan]

It might be nice to make an issue template which specifically asks if the committer has read this info (maybe put it in a CONTRIBUTING.md & link to it?)

[zenon]

If there'd be a list of the suggestions that came in via the built-in feedback system, that would make me more sure in using it.
(Seems I have a trust issue concerning communication technologies .. :-) )

[fonsp]

If you see the 💕 hearts after posting a message, the message is guaranteed to have been stored in our database! We use google firebase as database, and the 💕 are shown after their confirmation message. If something went wrong, you will get a timeout message with a sad face 😢 asking you to contact us in a different way.

[clad26]

Any idea if .ipynb will be convertible to run in Pluto?

[fonsp]

Here you go!
https://observablehq.com/@olivier_plas/pluto-jl-jupyter-conversion

Let's use this issue for discussion about the feedback system, and create a new issue for other topics

[clad26]

_moved to #276_

[Shuvomoy]

_moved to https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/issues/305_

[fonsp]

@Shuvomoy can you move this to a new issue please?

[JulesArcher]

Hi,

There seems to be a change in Pluto.jl behavior from v0.11.13 to v0.11.14 so that Pluto launches automatically in a browser. I am running Pluto via ssh tunnel to remote headless server, and am getting error messages related to missing default browser. After "export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox", it's still complaining about display issues (not running x-server).

Is there a way to opt out of launching automatically as v0.11.13 was doing before?

Thanks!

[Pocket-titan]

@JulesArcher Hey! Please see https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/issues/401#issuecomment-690836546 for an answer and discussion.

[JulesArcher]

@Pocket-titan thank you for the #401 link!

[kagalenko-m-b]

Link to the FAQ a the bottom of https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl takes to the sign-in page for notion