We just hope you will order your boards through circuits.io :), but we will not tie you in. You can download your gerbers and have your board produced elsewhere.
Thanks man! Our dream is that you guy's can fully focus on the creative part of your project. We want to do the boring part: component sourcing, getting the PCBs manufactured, getting it all assembled, testing,...
We are working hard on a better footprint editor right now. It will probably be released in one or two weeks. If you have trouble adding a footprint you can always send us an email and we'll add it for you.
It could work in firefox. Its just that we only test it in Chrome, because we have limited resources.
We love Codeacademy and have been thinking about building such a thing on circuits.io instead of tutorials. It's a lot more fun! We will have it one of these days.
That sounds like the assisted routing we are working on. Now we are focusing on getting the parts search a lot better. It will be amazing and should be online in a few days.
To change the layer you have to push 'l'((l)ayer) not '|'. Sorry about that it must be the font we use. Thats a good idea to have a custom keymapping! We will look in to that.
We are also working hard at version control, visualization between commits and more social features,...
I'm now working hard at integrating with octopart and pulling up the datasheet for a part is already in there, but there is a lot more ...
Next thing on the list is DRC. We already have the algorithms in place, so its basically down to doing the visualization. You can expect that soon!
You can easily download your gerber files. Just click "make" and then "download".
We have plans to build the largest shared component library in the world. Soon!
We are also currently working on hooking up to a fab and panelizing is certainly part of that. We want you to order a board with one click and receive it in the mail just a few days later. And all that at a good price!