Planning to shutdown tmpnb.org in favor of mybinder.org

[MinRK]

tmpnb.org powers https://try.jupyter.org, and is a lightweight service for temporary notebook servers. However, tmpnb gets a lot less light as the number of users grows, and the scope of what we want to demo grows. Since tmpnb only allows serving a single repo, we’ve had to build an enormous kitchen-sink docker image with everything we want to demo. This is not sustainable, and keeping tmpnb.org up isn’t really working anymore. With the new Binder up and running, there is a better avenue for demoing Jupyter use cases that doesn’t require trying to build a one-size-fits-all demo.

Our plan is to update the try.jupyter.org page to be a set of links to Binder repos demoing Jupyter, and shutdown the tmpnb.org service. This will involve:

• creating a few binderable repos for demoing Jupyter
• making try.jupyter.org a landing page pointing to a few selected demo repos on Binder
• shutting down tmpnb.org
• putting the docker-demo-images repo in the attic, since people who want to demo their own work can now create Binders instead of adding to the big demo image.

See the GitHub Issue for further planning.

We don’t have a timeframe for this yet, but if you are relying on tmpnb.org for anything let us know. The odds are that Binder can already serve you better than tmpnb does right now.

-Min

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[Brian Granger]

Thanks for the update Min, this sounds like a good plan. What about
building a page on mybinder.org with featured or popular repos, and
just directly forward try.jupyter.org there?

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[Matthias Bussonnier]

+1 to retiring tmpnb.

Let's not add features, especially since "popular" binders could expose "secret" gist repository, add complexity and require us to add state to binder.

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[Thomas Kluyver]

Automatically showcasing popular binders brings up some possible complications like that, but a manually curated list doesn't. This is what we do on the nbviewer homepage, and I think it's a good idea to do the same for Binder, whether it's on the mybinder.org homepage or elsewhere.

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[Damián Avila]

>  This is what we do on the nbviewer homepage, and I think it's a good idea to do the same for Binder

+1 on this one.

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[Fernando Perez]

+1 to retiring tmpnb from me too. tmpnb was a key inspiration and early source of implementation for binder, so the progression is more than natural.

Cheers

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