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Discussion summary

PostHog has open-sourced a version of their project with some licensing differences, and there is discussion about the principles in their AGENTS.md file, notably avoiding em-dashes. Contributors and licensing details are also discussed.

What the discussion says

  • Some find the AGENTS.md principle about em-dashes odd.
  • There is curiosity about the purpose of the open-source repo.
  • Questions about licensing and contributions from non-employees.
  • Concerns about project structure and file organization.
“The AGENTS.md says 'Avoid em-dashes like the plague'.”
— xnorswap
“Is this open-source version based on the main repo?”
— thatxliner

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  • I just recently switched to posthog self hosted and it works fine
    by jnstrdm05
  • The sheer number of files in the root of that project is making my OCD itch like crazy. That would drive me insane.
    by drcongo
  • I used to like their product but now they too many modules and knobs that I find it difficult to understand and navigate.

    I think is a bit of product slopification.

    by heyheyhouhou
  • It's hard for me to express how much I dislike their marketing website. Sometimes when you have a "cool idea" you should sit with it a moment and then pull back.
    by mrcwinn
  • Last time I checked, Posthog self hosted was basically unusable. They have a hobby deployment script which just pulls the latest build from master which varies from “somewhat works” to “completely broken”
    by madjam002
  • Does anyone know what the context for this is? Because https://github.com/PostHog/posthog exists as well
    by thatxliner
  • Open sourced ?! I believe it was open source from day one.
    by theHocineSaad
  • Hey, Rafa from PostHog here :)

    We've always been open source, so I'm not sure I understand what this is about! This is linking to our `posthog-foss` repository which has been a thing for years now, it's simply the main repository without the `ee/` folder - which is not a folder we have a lot inside anyways, we've never tried hiding anything behind it intentionally.

    edit: the title originally read "Posthog has been open-sourced" but it's now updated to better reflect what this is about, thanks mods!

    by rbaudibert

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