On "Updated events data retention for new paid plans"

PostHog just quietly made retention a product tier differentiator instead of a feature, and that's a smart move that every analytics vendor should copy. Shorter default retention cuts infrastructure costs while preserving enough signal for standard use cases, and customers who actually need historical depth can pay for it—which is how it should work. The real win: it stops forcing everyone to subsidize edge cases. For practitioners, this means checking your actual retention needs now before you're stuck on grandfathered pricing or forced to migrate, and reconsidering whether you're actually using data older than two years or just keeping it out of habit.