The latest from the PostHog community

Array 1.20.0

Jan 19, 2021

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We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog for 2 weeks to give everyone a chance to recharge (with a rotation in place to make sure nothing burned down).

2021 is now here and we're kicking off with some awesome new features. Behold...

Release Notes

If you're self-hosting and want to upgrade for a better experience with nicer features, remember to update your PostHog instance.

Apps, Apps, and more Apps

Plugin Library Screenshot

A lot has been happening on our Apps front.

Besides a whole bunch work to deliver performance improvements and mature the PostHog Apps ecosystem, we have two major changes being introduced with this new PostHog version:

A shiny new apps library

We have released a apps library where you can browse through all the apps built by our core team and community, and made sure the library is populated with apps! Thus, we now have integrations that support getting data from GitHub and GitLab, or sending data over to BigQuery and Hubspot, for example.

We're working to make apps available on Cloud, but, in the meanwhile, if you're self-hosting, do check out our apps and let us know what you think!

Apps can now access persistent storage

Up until now, app builders would have noticed that the cache could have been used to store data in-memory using Redis, but we now also support storage, which allows apps to store data in a persistent form, opening up a lot of new use cases for you to explore.

Static Cohorts

Static Cohorts Screenshot

In addition to our standard dynamic cohorts (periodically updated based on the definition), PostHog now support static cohorts - groups of users that don't update.

To create a static cohort, head over to 'People' -> 'Cohorts' and, when creating a new cohort, select 'Upload CSV'. This CSV file should have a single column with either the user's distinct_id or email.

This way, you can import data from outside sources into a PostHog cohort more easily, as well as turn your dynamic cohorts into static ones by first exporting them. You could, for example, add your Mailchimp subscribers list as a static cohort.

Sortable Funnel Steps

Sortable Funnels Screenshot

As of this new release, when you head over to Funnels in PostHog, you will see 3 dots next to each funnel step. By dragging these 3 dots up and down you can now re-order your funnel's steps, for example if you made a mistake, or want to explore different funnel structures.

This was a feature that was consistently requested by the PostHog community, and we'd like to also shoutout @glmaljkovich for helping us build it!

PostHog Bookmarklet

Bookmarklet Gif

To try out the PostHog snippet without having to update anything on your codebase, you can make use of our bookmarklet, which you can find over in 'Project Settings'.

This lets you capture events in your website without any code, and we've been using it actively during our demos!

Sessions List now loads 10x faster

Since joining us, Karl has been submitting performance improvement after performance improvement.

This time, as session recordings are being used more and more by our users, it was time to speed up the loading of the sessions list, which now loads 10x faster!

Share your feedback

We'd love to hear anything you have to say about PostHog, good or bad. As a thank you, we'll share some awesome PostHog merch.

Want to get involved? Email us to schedule a 30 minute call with one of our teams to help us make PostHog even better!

Share your feedback

We'd love to hear anything you have to say about PostHog, good or bad. As a thank you, we'll share some awesome PostHog merch.

Want to get involved? Email us to schedule a 30 minute call with one of our teams to help us make PostHog even better!

Favorite Issue

PostHog Development on Apple Silicon

Are you a person that likes to operate at the bleeding edge of technology? Follow Marius' adventures working with PostHog on an Apple M1 laptop.

PostHog News

Cory has joined us as a Lead Designer and has already started working on some jaw-dropping designs! Cory lives in an RV with his wife and child, boasting greater home square footage than many apartments in New York or San Francisco.

He believes pineapple belongs on pizza, and we're now questioning whether we indeed know how to hire.

Community Shoutouts

Big thanks to the following members of our community who have contributed to PostHog over this release cycle:

Open Roles

Are you a Fullstack Engineer, Senior Engineer, Marketing Lead, Growth Engineer, or Customer Success Lead?

Or perhaps you're not either but think you'd still be a good fit for PostHog?

We want you!

Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

In addition to the highlights listed above, we also merged a bunch of PRs improving PostHog's performance and fixing bugs:


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