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"it's" should be written "its" [0].

I am not a native English speaker, but somehow I feel the urge to notice it, and keep noticing it everywhere. I think it's fairly common mistake.

[0]: https://grammarist.com/spelling/its-its/

It seems like a better way to do it would be the way Wirecutter handles prices in their reviews? They give you both the price when the article was written and the current price on Amazon. When the data changes, you probably want to see both.

Feedback from a reader that found himself a user shortly thereafter: - That's one hell of a funnel. I found it rather irresistible to explore the grid, and eventually to make an account.

- I am very impressed with the concept and the relative performance for a zoomable code/viz canvas.

- I was unable to open a link in VScode or to use the Open Cell pallet action. "An unknown error has occured, please report." I'm dutifully reporting it. The web link prompted an extension install, then on subsequent links prompted for open permission then failed silently.

- It would have been cooler if the population of Australia updated while I was watching the odometer.

- I disabled ghostery after it was blocking a bunch of network requests.

- The console threw a ton of 404 errors, but only for the same resources: https://dc8bsfv4udm20.cloudfront.net/cell_images/551e4016-14... https://rur.bigcrunch.io/cell_images/551e4016-1452-415f-85bd...

- I could not delete a space I made. It didn't send a network request.

- I was trying to delete a space in the first place because the one I made was too small to try any nifty templates.

- I really wanted middle mouse to pan around. In fact I wanted anything that can pan besides clicking the arrows.

- I perused the docs. I really wanted to just modify a link to make an array link to an additional cell, but I couldn't find out about anything but creating a link. I still haven't been able to figure that one out.

- It takes about 40 seconds for data to start really flowing. Until then I can't navigate to my space, and I'm prompted to let BigCrunch take care of making one for me. After the data starts rendering then I can navigate to my space. It would be nice if that returned sooner. Also nice if there was a visual indication that data is on the way.

You're really on to something here!

Hi, Thanks for taking the time to respond. I'm Simon, the founder. Your comments are so encouraging for a young startup trying to change the web. Much appreciated.

- odometer: should have been moving! That was a bug. But that is exactly the vision - data updating live in blog posts. Many places don't allow it too (iframe/websockets etc) - It takes about 40 seconds: User uptake of our charts is way more than we architected for. Working on it... - modify a link: Only support delete and create right now. Feature request log. - Panning: On a mac, two fingers get your everywhere. Ctrl-Drag gets you around on a mac much more easily. But it's a hard problem in general