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Posted by bnc319 9/11/2025

Why our website looks like an operating system(posthog.com)
684 points | 487 commentspage 9
acka 9/12/2025|
- I open the link in a mobile browser.

- A cookie banner fills 95% of the screen.

- No accept, deny, customize, or close button in sight, and no, I am not going to switch to desktop mode or adjust my text size to something submicroscopic just to dismiss a stupid cookie banner.

Sorry guys, but that means a hard pass from me. Let the downvotes rain, but it is what it is.

metalman 9/12/2025||
So smooth, stable, easy on the head, instantly relaxing, but contains just enough pointy puns and dorky humor to function as hater repelent
seemaze 9/12/2025||
This is almost as bad as hijacking the back button. It ruins the mental model of branching provided for by actual browser tabs.
SamDc73 9/12/2025||
It's funny that it shows the word "PostHog" as a "Possible spelling mistake found." in my browser ...
faefox 9/12/2025||
The overall look and feel is very BeOS and that's just about the highest compliment a piece of software can receive. :)
cyberjunkie 9/12/2025||
Someone needs to make a KDE, XFCE theme of this.
vasuadari 9/12/2025||
Their https://posthog.com/404 is blue screen of death :)
bovinecomputer 9/12/2025||
software apps inc did this concept a while ago with a real vintage mac emulator and i think it was executed really well! probably makes more sense for a company like software apps inc to do it vs posthog imo https://software.inc/
albertmz 9/12/2025||
Serious question. Could one not write a whole desktop environment in a lisp (clojurescript) and serve it as a website?
baddash 9/12/2025|
How come you're asking that? Just curious
albertmz 9/12/2025||
I want to find a good use for clojurescript. It would be cool to build a personal site with an OS theme. Additionally with enough extensibility it could become like emacs.
Evidlo 9/12/2025|
Easter egg: Trash > Employee feet pics
DoctorOW 9/12/2025|
Curiosity got the best of me, opened it, pictures of feet.

"I'm not sure what I expected"

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