New Autoposition Text Feature - Work in Progress, Feedback Welcome!

Hey everyone – I’ve started working on one of Plotly’s oldest issues: text autoposition on scatter plots. If you display text on a scatter plot or a line plot, you can easily end up with a situation where the text on the points overlaps each other. It’s a huge pain; you can either remove some labels, attempt to individually modify the position of each text element, or add your own text annotations one at a time.