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George, this response is an embarrassment to the community.
I'm not sure if you imagine that you're being "constructively critical", but it comes off as self-centered, thankless, and, in places, ignorant and short-sited. Granted, all projects have room for improvement (and this *should* be a forum to discuss those suggestions), but to state that every design decision you disagree with was a "mistake" (even a "horrible mistake") without anywhere acknowledging the tremendous amount of effort that went into this very useful (and free!) resource, is rude and puts quite a bit of weight onto your own opinion (which, in my opinion, is starting to feel extremely dated and tiring). It would be one thing if this were a one-time offense, but you have a long track record here of hijacking threads into diatribes of thinly veiled self-promotion, advertisements for pub spectra, and reminders that you have have an image somewhere on the microvolution website. In this particular thread about SPEKcheck, we don't need to know the percent laser power you use on your confocal, that you'd like to thank the US taxpayers for your S10 grant, that you're hosting a Leica FLIM demo this September, that you have a FRET calculator excel file, or your long personal list of spectra information URLs which this list has seen many times.
Ian, thanks a lot for this awesome tool. As usual from your group, the codebase is super clean and well thought out, and the tool helps turn large spreadsheets of spectra spreadsheets into actually useful and actionable information that many microscopists would benefit from. While George may struggle to appreciate the portability of your design, I think the fully client-side nature of the code is pretty cool and will certainly be useful for those who want to modify or extend the functionality on their own. George, if you're looking for a similar microscope-specific spectra tool where you don’t need to run your own instance, you can check out
https://www.fpbase.org/microscopes, which stores the optical configs and spectral info in the server-side database.
Thanks again Ian, and congrats on the release.
PS. George the "s" in https just means the webpage uses an encrypted communication protocol, and is not related to or incompatible with open-access.