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It stopped being relevant because its content became acceptable on major social networks, beginning in late 2022.

Hopefully you won’t mind me using their own arguments to promote this OSS web analytics project instead: https://counterscale.dev/ Unlike Simple Analytics (the post authors), you d…

> However, it's not meant to be a community project or used commercially for free. But they can? Source available can mean everything from "proprietary, you can look but you can't …

> Which is exactly why they now need to switch licenses and put newer features behind more restrictive terms so users are forced to pay Sentry switched to BUSL in 2019, almost 5 ye…

Google has an organization-wide ban on using AGPL software, and they explain why here: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...

> Is it possible to run Counter scale on-prem against logs from HAProxy, Nginx, or Apache? Probably. But it's not for that use case (for example, Counterscale intentionally strips …

Plausible is great (I use it at Sentry), but I want to clarify that only Plausible Community Edition is open source, and it note it differs significantly from their paid SaaS offer…

What terminology would you use instead to differentiate it from a SaaS solution? Someone suggested "self-operated" elsewhere in the thread. Thoughts?

Because those are the underlying services that the above software is built on. And they allow the system to handle both very few to many many requests/sec for basically $0. That's …

Maybe self-operated is better terminology -- that's fair. (Though I think one of the key points is that there is almost nothing to operate.) For me, the fundamental issue is whethe…

I don't work for Cloudflare?

Can you do 100k requests/day for free running Kafka, Clickhouse, nginx, some queue-draining code, etc? Clickhouse says the minimum amount of RAM it needs is 8gb. Kafka also needs m…

I assume you're not talking about this company because there is no such script on spotlightjs.com (easily verifiable), and the docs are also actually in the repository: Example: ht…

Your browser's dev tools don't show you what's happening inside your server (and any downstream services) when responding to the browser's HTTP requests. Spotlight does. That's wha…

In the early 2000s in college I wrote a basic terrain renderer in C++ and OpenGL. It randomly generated some textured terrain, and had some basic features like you could move the c…

Re: open.sentry.io, some of the language should probably be more clear. We’ll take a look at it.

> Then release your software under a source available non-compete license with the caveat that it will become open source when you stop working on it. (Basically what you have alre…

Feedback accepted. We’re still sharpening our language, and the FSL is the best articulation of what we want to do today.

I don’t feel it’s deflection because Armin is the creator of Flask, a founding engineer, and our Principal Architect. He additionally is a member Sentry’s senior engineering/produc…

I don’t feel “given you already have a proprietary license, why wouldn’t you just make it freely permissive” needs much explaining. We develop the software; the exclusivity period …

> but are people who are trying to replace open source software with a shared source version Note that the thread you link to is a situation where they took an entirely closed sour…

> when you try to mislead people into thinking those licenses are open source I think you're crossing a line. Here's what Armin wrote in the parent linked article: > ... But one th…