openreplay VS rrweb

- Optimize user experience: use insights to refine and improve your app’s usability.

Interested? For more details, you can check out the GitHub repo [0] or documentation [1]:

[0] https://github.com/openreplay/openreplay or documentation

[1] https://docs.openreplay.com/en/rn-sdk/

Hey HN,

For anyone who uses session replay tools to debug, monitor, or analyze user journeys, this feature might come in handy. OpenReplay — the self-hosted session replay tool that helps developers troubleshoot web apps faster — now supports tabbed browsing.

*Here's how:*

1. Capture and replay user sessions that span across multiple browser tabs, all within a single recording.

2. OpenReplay's tracker communicates across browser tabs, ensuring accurate tracking of each tab, even when duplicated or opened with `window.open` without `_blank`.

3. With "co-browsing", you can watch and support users in real-time and see how they navigate across multiple tabs of your app.

*Why it’s important?*

1. This feature is convenient for developers as it allows them to easily identify bugs by reviewing a complete session in one replay, rather than having to reference multiple recordings.

2. It provides a deeper understanding of the user journey and interactions across multiple tabs in your web app, helping in the comprehension of complex user behaviors and paths.

3. It provides accurate feedback on user tab actions such as opening, switching, and closing tabs, assisting in UX/UI improvements.

Interested? For more details, you can check out the GitHub repo at https://github.com/openreplay/openreplay.

You could maybe get in a scenario where a company rather sneakily changes their license without proper announcement to make usage non-open and billable, but that's pretty rare and bad behavior and that underhandedness may bite them back if it goes to court (I am not a lawyer). That said, it can happen. As an example, see this discussion I opened where the project switched licenses and the maintainers thought it was enough to only really announce this within a 1 hour YouTube video (Rather than their blog or update notes).

OpenReplay would not be typically be considered open source. (Which I have raised with them and have since been blocked from their repos).

How does it compare to OpenReplay ?

> Before deciding on ClickHouse, we were planning to use OpenSearch

You should have tried Quickwit :)

Anyway, sounds like a great project, best of luck!

[1] https://github.com/openreplay/openreplay

[2] https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit

I would disagree with OpenReplay being open source, as I raised with them back in July (I've also since been blocked from their GitHub org for opening that discussion).

Interesting project!

How does this compare to rrweb[0], the library that Sentry and many other commercial offerings for frontend monitoring use?

[0]: https://www.rrweb.io/

Congrats on being the only commercial company to actually sponsor rrweb[0] rather than just fork it and contribute absolutely nothing back (or in the case of Sentry - remove their copyright and violate their license).

Seeing as you're "open-source", why chose to fork and detach the project rather than contribute directly to it? With a detached fork, other users can't even compare your changes to the original and pull in fixes. If you truly believed in the spirit of open source, you'd believe in working together and giving back, not just taking advantage of a free lunch.

It feels like all these "open-source" companies are just closed source but with open-source as a marketing gimmick.

[0] https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb

if you want I can help to install www.rrweb.io free, DM me

In the end, I had to experiment quite a few times. First, I tried using rrweb since it was something that was already on my radar. The idea is I would record using that and convert it into a video using rrvideo.

I didn't think postHog was a good comparison either,

I knew of rrweb https://www.rrweb.io/

Great to see more open source contendants in the space

(something like https://www.rrweb.io/)

I'm indie/solo making Linkkraft browser (to make a living from it). Browser to be effective researcher & collector. It visualizes your steps as tree and makes html snapshot for your each step (even steps in SPAs like twitter).