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by reilly3000 2521 days ago
I’ve been using Metabase off and on in prod since 2016. I think you guys are really onto something and I love seeing Clojure in a popular OSS project. I know you guys just got some money; here’s my pitch to make it count: Metabase would be a lot more sticky if you provided a robust home for annotation and discussion. You’re better than most at letting admins describe data, but often users want to talk about the data they are discovering. Doing so in the context of the data is so much more effective than talking about it in generalities in Slack. I think Yellowfin has some features around discussion but there is always room for improvement. Maybe one could: Comment on a data point, write an explanation for why a date range has weird data, or tag a colleague to ask about an outlier in their dept. Celebrate wins with emojis? All I know is that there is nothing stickier or more engaging than discussion history. Keep up the good fight!

While I have you here... <nag> bump for the Athena driver. Also I can’t use Metabot without some privacy settings. Can’t anything be done? </nag>