Better Offline & Development User Experience

We are long-time Gitbook users at docs.fluentd.org and docs.fluentbit.io. While at the beginning the experience was smooth to work in local mode or offline, now it is no longer possible. As paid users, we would love to have an improved experience for developers.

As open-source projects, our repos receive contributions where the authors cannot test their changes without access to Gitbook without an account. From the other side, as project maintainers, we don't want to log into Gitbook to preview the changes proposed, this makes the CI hok not that useful. This slows us down and doesn't reduce friction from a contributor/user experience.

When we heard Gitbook was going back to OSS root it was great news, however, we got the wrong expectations and it seems we cannot do what we used to do in the beginning with the client or the old desktop tools.

What do we need ?

• local previews of content being modified
• offline mode
• Github CI preview that doesn't require a Gitbook account

Is this something is going to be fixed and if so is there any ETA ?,

Sadly community is pushing to move to other solutions with friendly dev/community cycle,. We just need to understand the plans around it so we can take the right call moving forward.

Thanks again for your help.

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points; start by inspecting the TypeScript frontend and existing Git-based preview or CI workflows. Clarify which of local previews, offline mode, and account-free GitHub CI is in scope, then define done as the requested workflows functioning without a GitBook account.