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So it's not Laravel that's making it hard, it just means that we'd have to rethink how we've tied our product to the infastructure. It's definitely possible, an

So it's not Laravel that's making it hard, it just means that we'd have to rethink how we've tied our product to the infastructure. It's definitely possible, and if we go down that route, the software in Laravel will make it a breeze to export. We spoke with a chap on twitter who made a great point that we'd likely see more contributions since it's in PHP / Laravel. Less people know Go, and one of the big reasons we didn't feel the obligation to OS the new version was because next to nobody contributed to the Lite version. And you're right. There are a segment of people who won't use analytics unless they're self-hosted. Totally understandable. We'll see what happens. It's not on the roadmap in the immediate future but we're not ruling it out.

tedivm 7y ago
I'm that chap that spoke to them on twitter. I want to be very clear about what happened- one of the cofounders blocked me on twitter for asking these questions (even though I was polite about it), and then the other one reached out and we had a pretty decent call. Unfortunately that call made it very clear that they were not going to make the new version open source.
- JackWritesCode 7y ago
  Until I spoke to you, I thought you were a troll and so did Paul :P That call with you was very useful and gave us a lot to think about. We recorded a podcast about OS and I mentioned our call: https://fathom.transistor.fm/episodes/the-open-source-dilemma https://fathom.transistor.fm/episodes/the-open-source-dilemm...