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I didn’t know what Posthog was before this event but the website is so unusable on Safari on MacOS or iOS for me i’m surprised I stuck through to discover the product.

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Curious, I pressed "X" on the blog post. It went away, leaving me with the fake desktop view at "posthog.com". Ok, fine. How do I get back?

I pressed the back button on my browser. The URL updated to be the blog post's URL. A good start. But the UI did not change, leaving me at the desktop view.

Many moments like these if you use Posthog

Without JavaScript, all I get is a background image and a top "navigation bar" where the only thing that's actually operable at all is a signup link. Which then goes to a completely blank page.

I still don't know what Posthog is, but I'm now committed to never using it if I can at all help it.

We are taking about a company’s JavaScript libraries (the npm attack). Knowing that, I’m pretty sure that people who browse without JavaScript enabled aren’t their target market.

I’m apparently also not in their market so, the best I ca say from the website is (hand wavy) “website analytics”.

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In this case, I think GP is suggesting this rises above the level of a tangential annoyance.

Also HN doesn't need 11 month old volunteer mods.

a) ok whippersnapper, b) new community members have the most energy. I’m not actually sure there’s much need for volunteer mods on HN tbh, but the best volunteers are often the newest folks around.

Well wagging the same finger twice in the same comment section on the same point is overenergetic in my book.

At least the second time it should have become obvious that the comments were voicing a common response of visitors to the site, so were constructive rather than nitpicking.

It’s tangential, because it’s not about the information posted.

The site caused my browser to freeze and it reminded me of the 56k modem days.

Interesting, I remember people here praising their website redesign a while ago.

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