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You get this when transitioning boards in our hosted platform (try clicking): https://d2studio.ai/diagrams/664641071 I don't add this for D2 CLI because the outputs there are SVG, …

I love this hahah. Diagrams as a comic book. The urge to add silly stuff like this vs working on v2 of sequence diagram that has much more demand is often tempting.

The purpose is to make use of a dimension of the visual space previously unused to make diagrams more expressive. Even if it's something simple like a node turning from green to re…

We have examples here, though I need to add more. https://d2lang.com/examples/elk/ I like ELK's output better sometimes too, e.g. the Golang Queue example. Choice is good

What if that style is already used though? (e.g. other connections are red)

Coauthor of D2 here. Lately I've been noodling on the idea of expanding the animation capabilities. I think out loud a bit here, and if you have thoughts, would love to hear them: …

D2 does allow custom layout tweaking in the proprietary layout engine. Sadly it's not possible in the open-source ones. https://docs.d2studio.ai/tour/freehand

At the very least, assuming you're correct the current slow infrastructure is by design, it seems good there are options. A business can choose if they want 1. slow, pay for custom…

Thank you, made an issue: https://github.com/terrastruct/text-to-diagram-site/issues/6...

Yeah that one's a community plugin vs an officially maintained one, which can have a range of activity from graveyard to some being maintained better than many of our official ones…

The linking you can do already if I understand the request correctly: https://play.d2lang.com/?script=Ks5ILEi1UihOLSxNzUtOjU_JTEwv... Okay, we'll put those sequence diagram improve…

Can definitely concur about the Reddit part. Feels like commenters there are always looking for a gotcha

1. It depends on what you value =). For some, those 2 you mentioned are enough. For others, it can be something like the our CLI doesn't require a chromium browser to render SVGs (…

Yeah I think what you're looking for is the note at the end of this section: https://d2lang.com/tour/exports/#svg Feel free to make a PR to d2/d2-docs to include it in our list of …

Unfortunately not, I've tried reaching out to GH folks but no dice. However it should be noted that d2.js, which enables client-side renders, didn't really become usable until this…

Thanks! Good to know, we'll slot this for 0.7.2 (next release)

It switches to ELK: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/master/d2cli/main.go#...

It does now! (As of a week ago) Check out the network tab in the d2 playground. It's powered by d2.js, a wrapper around a wasm port of d2, which we've recently been working on. Not…

Ah right, forgot to test the update with dark mode. Thanks for letting me know! edit: fixed

Hello fellow devs. Just wanted to share a new feature we added this morning, though it's very alpha stage (already someone's filed a github issue for it hah) If you want to skip th…

> I’m often alone on this. Engineers look at complex systems with many interesting parts and think “wow, a lot of system design is happening here!” In fact, a complex system usuall…

Played around with it for a serious task for 15 mins. Compared to Claude Code: Pros: - Beautiful UI - Useful sidebar, keep track of changed files, cost - Better UX for accepting ch…

Yeah we do this with globs. a.class: backend b.class: frontend # hide everything **: suspend layers: { backend: { # show backend stuff **: unsuspend { &class: backend } } } see mor…