Posthog has been a fantastically useful tool to understand how our product is being used! Don't get some of the hate - any OSS company will probably embed some telemetry occassionally.
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#12Using Posthog (hosted, free tier) for a side project. It was easy to set up and is pleasant to use! Better than another product in this area I had previously tried.
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#14Love posthog in many ways, but confused and a non-starter that they don’t support any data deletion yet.
i.e., if you want user analytics to be auto-deleted after 90 days, there’s literally no way to do that yet.
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#15Love posthog in many ways, but confused and a non-starter that they don’t support any data deletion yet. i.e., if you want user analytics to be auto-deleted after 90 days, there’s literally no way to do that yet.
Lol what?? What's their retention policy?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are they obligated to provide support for a free open source project?
it's not a free open project if only part of it is open and the development is done by a central company that sells the other half.
Open source maintainers are not obligated to provide support. They're certainly not obligated to do so for free.
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#17Big fan of posthog. I've been using it for over a year and loving it as a replacement or augmentation to Google Analytics for funnels and user interactions.
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#19Love posthog in many ways, but confused and a non-starter that they don’t support any data deletion yet. i.e., if you want user analytics to be auto-deleted after 90 days, there’s literally no way to do that yet.
Hi, PostHog co-founder here. We support deletion of individual users and entire projects, so it's inaccurate to say we "don't support any data deletion". We also TTL recordings after 1 month for free users and 3 months for paid users. You're right that we don't have a way of TTL-ing out events data automatically.
We have had some requests [0]for this though it hasn't been requested that often hence we haven't prioritised this. We've recently improved some of our tooling around this so should be easier for us to ship.
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#20Why is the self hosted version framed as a "hobby"? Is this another one of those enshittification of open source where open source is used more as a marketing gimmick instead of following it's true ethos?
That’s a pet peeve of mine so I’ll chime in. I’ve actually used it self hosted pretty much since posthog launched and moved to their cloud after a couple years. Our product blew up and it was difficult to scale, as well as a few hosted only features that we needed (by then we raised and could afford it). I also contributed code (and got some swag) which was promptly merged. They’ve also open sourced how they run the…
I tried to self-host recently and there was a lot of brokenness, and they discontinued the helm chart. They clearly don't want you to actually self host anymore and it's a shame. I have security requirements and can't yet afford their security-approved cloud product.