analytics

Here's something better than that: https://github.com/plausible/analytics Elixir.

A suggestion for addition: > Plausible Analytics is a standard Elixir/Phoenix application backed by a PostgreSQL database for general data and a Clickhouse database for stats. https://github.com/plausible/analytics

I use it for many side projects, and I am starting to use it for bigger ones too. Should we submit personal projects and smaller side projects, or is this for fully fledged app only? Also, should we add know open source applications such as Plausible[1]? I am always happy to see Elixir and Erlang hit the front page. [1] - https://github.com/plausible/analytics

The logic is simple, as soon as you collected and/or processed IP addresses, you need user consent as it is personal data. You don’t get to “undo” this requirement by discarding the IP address afterwards, the law doesn’t care. Others have come to the same conclusion: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/1963

Plausible uses the same algorithm and they have a page written by a lawyer claiming this is GDPR compliant: https://plausible.io/blog/legal-assessment-gdpr-eprivacy Edit: Found more discussion here: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/1963#disc... > To summarize, I believe the EDPB has made their position very clear on this in their 2023 guidelines: Plausible's fingerprinting is subject to Article 5(3) of the ePD. Plausible has made their position very clear in their blog post, leaning in the other direction. Until this is tried out in court, I don't believe that there will be any definitive answer.

Posthog is pretty good but very pushy towards using their SaaS (understandably). Self hosting is not really advertised on their main site however is buried in their gh repo as a footnote [1] with indications of vague issues past 100K events/month. Haven’t delved into how to scale it past that though and they do provide some docs that I have yet to review. Also the primary repo is not FOSS, and that "100% FOSS" repo is buried in yet another footnote [2]. Plausible follows in PH footsteps but is not fully faithful to open source. If you want to self host, you won’t have same set of features as their SaaS and need to rely on long term releases for their "community edition" [3] On "Ahrefs", is there even an open source version of their product? I couldn’t easily find it (on mobile). [4] Maybe I’ll take a look at others you mentioned later but

Would this also work with something like Plausible (https://github.com/plausible/analytics) which uses ClickHouse to store web analytics data, or is it primarily for log data?

I've actually had this discussion with Plausible directly back in 2022[1], and more recently with the lawyer they had write a blog post[2] on the topic. I wrote an article on it, that was recently discussed here on HN [3]. The response from Plausible is essentially "we've checked with legal council, and stand by the statement". The conversation with the lawyer started out well, but he stopped responding when I asked about the ePD, not GDPR. There generally seems to be a lot of confusion, even in legal circles, about what ePD requires informed consent for. Many think that only PII requires consent, or think that anonymization bypasses it. That amount of confusion makes it very easy for a layman (e.g. Plausible) to find _someone_ willing to back up their viewpoint. The EDPB released a guideline in 2023 that explicitly states that what Plaus

I'm not sure I personally agree with this, and I'm not 100% sure the developer community at-large does either... Let's take a few examples, which I've shared elsewhere in similar discussions: - GitLab: Open Source or Open Core? Most would say open source, but (I assume) you would argue open core [0]. - Plausible: Open Source or Open Core? They say open source, but it's actually open core [1]. - Cal.com: Open Source or Open Core? They say open source, but once again, open core [2]. - Posthog: Open Source or Open Core? They say open source, but actually open core [3]. - Sidekiq: Open Source or Open Core? Open... core [4]. Yet, every dev I know would consider these projects Open Source... and yet also Open Core. So there's a disconnect somewhere. Under this mindset, very few open source startups are actually open source, yet everybody says t

I’m building an Open Source multi-tenant email newsletter tool [1] and the project is entirely AGPLv3 licensed. I have automatic builds from the `main` branch that I deploy to the SaaS version while public Docker images are available only for tagged releases. There is currently no difference between the self-hosted and the SaaS version, but I am planning two things: 1) An env variable `IS_SELF_HOSTED` which, when set to `false`, toggles certain features like billing (currently enabled via a separate env variable and theoretically available to self-hosters) and includes hard-coded stuff like a footer with links to the official project website and our ToS. 2) Add a registration feature for self-hosters who make a donation. I haven’t fully planned out this feature, but if a self-hosted instance is registered by a paid supporter, it will most