Messaging: Property flattener removal

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Messaging: Property flattener removal #125

Closed joethreepwood closed 1 year ago

joethreepwood commented 1 year ago

Context: https://posthog.slack.com/archives/C0374DA782U/p1691150080499099

The property flattener app is causing issues and needs to go away.

200ish impacted orgs: https://posthog.slack.com/archives/C0374DA782U/p1691156277387579?thread_ts=1691150080.499099&cid=C0374DA782U

Proposed messaging below. I'm suggesting we give a weeks' notice for this as best practice, but please let me know if it needs to be more urgent.

joethreepwood commented 1 year ago

PR to remove from .com - https://github.com/PostHog/meta/issues/125

tiina303 commented 1 year ago

it's not really a problem for us, it's a problem for the teams using the app. I'd maybe call out that it spams your filters search as a reason they want to migrate away from it and use hogQL instead.

joethreepwood commented 1 year ago

Tweaked

benjackwhite commented 1 year ago

I think we have to be clever here and do the legwork to make sure that existing insights aren't broken.

If we aren't able to detect which insights are affected and pro-actively modify them to use hogql, I don't think we should expect our users to...

joethreepwood commented 1 year ago

Closing as Cam took lead on this as a different approach.