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Posthog – open-source analytics and UX research tool

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Re: Posthog – open-source analytics and UX research tool

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Maintaining a helm chart is a non-zero amount of work - why do you think this should be provided for you?

That's not what I said. They did offer it, then removed it after I had made the decision to use them partly based on the Open Source self-hosting nature of the project. They used Open Source to bait and switch me.

I don't even need helm support, I'm fine to do my own. But they stopped even providing versioned releases so there's no stable tag or branch to build and target. That's actively hostile to anybody not spending their full day managing Posthog stuff.

I had planned on switching to the cloud Posthog when we got big enough, but it seems like we will have to start out with other options and it'll be much harder to change that later.

Re: Posthog – open-source analytics and UX research tool

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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.

People don’t understand the difference between tracking and telemetry . Simple as that.

I'd imagine that's what people say who call their tracking telemetry.
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