Remove Product Tours from posthog.com by posthog[bot] · Pull Request #16756 · PostHog/posthog.com

posthog · 2026-05-06T13:48:17Z

Summary

Removes Product Tours from the site since it's no longer being built. Customers and leads have been reaching out asking to be included in the alpha — taking it down so the inbound stops.

What changed

Deleted /docs/product-tours and /docs/api/product-tours (docs, API reference, snippets, landing page)
Removed the roadmap board entry on the homepage (src/components/Home/Board)
Stripped from navigation (src/navs/index.js — both the docs sidebar and the API docs nav)
Removed from product hooks (src/hooks/useProduct.ts, src/hooks/featureDefinitions/products.tsx) and deleted src/hooks/featureDefinitions/product_tours.tsx
Cleaned up the comparison-table feature wiring and removed product_tours rows from every competitor data file
Removed from the homepage taskbar/control surfaces (Home/Control, HeroCarousel/slides, Products/ProductsTest, ProductComparisonTable)
Removed broken /docs/product-tours/* links from blog posts, the use-case-selling handbook playbooks, the sales product-enablement page, and one newsletter
Removed the Vale lint entries that enforced the product name
Added vercel.json redirects so /docs/product-tours and /docs/api/product-tours (plus subpaths) land on the docs index

Mentions of competitors' product-tour features in blog posts (Pendo, Userpilot, Userflow, Appcues, etc.) are kept — they're factually accurate and don't link to anything that's been deleted.

Test plan

pnpm start renders the homepage without the Product Tours roadmap card or product entry
/docs/product-tours and /docs/api/product-tours 301 to the docs indexes via the new redirects
Docs sidebar nav no longer shows a Product Tours section; API nav no longer lists Product Tours
Pendo / Userpilot / Amplitude / Fullstory comparison pages render without the Product Tours row and don't error on the missing feature definition
pnpm check-links-post-build is clean (no remaining broken links to /docs/product-tours/*)

Created with PostHog Code

Removes the Product Tours product from the site since it is no longer part of the roadmap. Deletes the docs (/docs/product-tours and /docs/api/product-tours), the landing page, the roadmap board entry, the navigation entries, the product hooks, the feature definitions, and competitor comparison rows. Updates handbook playbooks, blog posts, and the newsletter to remove broken links and stale framing. Adds vercel.json redirects so old URLs land on the docs index. Generated-By: PostHog Code Task-Id: 9798a171-47ed-45f5-b2bc-91e2be7461ac

github-actions · 2026-05-06T13:48:41Z

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github-actions · 2026-05-06T13:49:22Z

Vale prose linter → found 55 errors, 310 warnings, 0 suggestions in your markdown

Full report → · Copy the Job Summary code block into an LLM to batch-fix issues.

Note: Too many findings to show inline. See the Job Summary linked above.

File	Errors	Warnings
`contents/blog/best-pendo-alternatives.mdx`	1	147
`contents/docs/integrate/_snippets/install-web.mdx`	0	3
`contents/handbook/growth/sales/product-enablement.md`	6	31
`contents/handbook/growth/use-case-selling/growth-and-marketing.md`	34	68
`contents/handbook/growth/use-case-selling/product-intelligence.md`	14	50
`contents/handbook/growth/use-case-selling/use-case-selling.md`	0	1
`contents/newsletter/hidden-danger-of-shipping-fast.md`	0	10

charlescook-ph · 2026-05-06T13:50:33Z

tagging a few folks as it touches a bunch of places:

docs folks for the docs bits
@CEMcNEill for the sales handbook
@natalia-amorim for the comparison articles

The GH Actions Gatsby cache is keyed on pnpm-lock.yaml and gatsby-config.js, neither of which changed in this PR. Cached mdx-scopes-dir shims from previous builds still import this snippet, so webpack fails to resolve it. Restoring the file as a stub keeps the build green; once the cache naturally rotates the stub becomes orphan and can be removed. Generated-By: PostHog Code Task-Id: 9798a171-47ed-45f5-b2bc-91e2be7461ac

gewenyu99

seems legit

gewenyu99 · 2026-05-06T14:23:57Z

        { "source": "/posts/:path*", "destination": "/posts/[slug]/index.html" }
    ],
    "redirects": [
+        { "source": "/docs/product-tours", "destination": "/docs", "statusCode": 301 },


These are a little suspect tbh... I'm not sure, maybe it should just 404? Or maybe we should build a page explaining that we don't build this anymore? Like a lil farewell blog?

raquelmsmith

thank you!

natalia-amorim · 2026-05-06T14:36:49Z

        'product_analytics',
        'web_analytics',
        'product_analytics.features.autocapture',
-        'product_tours',


@charlescook-ph we don't want to remove it altogether from the comparisons tables; PostHog doesn't have it but our competitors still do and it's part of doing a fair comparison, so I think this is more about flipping PostHog to 'false' and removing the alpha mentions.

Can you discard all the blog changes from the commit and I'll create a PR for the blog specifically?

@natalia-amorim try tagging posthog for changes, I think we can do this?

ah I went old school and did my own separate PR, already merged

- Take master's version of competitor comparison tables (per natalia-amorim review): keep product_tours rows in blog comparison tables and competitor data files so competitors with the feature still show up correctly; PostHog flips to available: false - Restore featureDefinitions/product_tours.tsx and its registration in ProductComparisonTable so product_tours rows render - Fix dead /docs/product-tours/start-here link in best-pendo-alternatives.mdx Generated-By: PostHog Code Task-Id: f04870e3-19b3-465a-8936-ad87333d8ec3

adboio · 2026-05-20T14:37:11Z

@natalia-amorim i made some changes here, could you pls take a look?

…aster Master removed the Product Tours product in #16756 (deleted docs, landing page, and nav entries). This branch was still adding back the Product Tours docs sidebar block, causing a merge conflict in src/navs/index.js. Remove both Product Tours entries from src/navs/index.js (the API reference link and the main docs sidebar section) so the three-way merge against master is clean again. Generated-By: PostHog Code Task-Id: c0d6ec58-56fd-41f2-a83d-d098d1ef26cb

* fix(nav): use valid @posthog/icons names for docs menu items Five icon names referenced in src/navs/index.js don't exist in @posthog/icons, so the resolver in TaskBarMenu silently rendered no icon for those entries. - IconInbox -> IconNotebook (PostHog Code > Inbox, Support > Inbox management) - IconLayoutDashboard -> IconDashboard (PostHog Code > Command Center) - IconGitFork -> IconGitRepository (PostHog Code > Worktrees) - IconMail -> IconLetter (Support > Email channel) - IconGitHub -> IconGithub (Support > GitHub integration; casing) Generated-By: PostHog Code Task-Id: 680d1cf1-2902-4dca-9b31-1f8546f84152 * fix(nav): more docs menu icon fixes + diversify Support → Guides colors Follow-ups from review: - PostHog Code → Inbox: IconLetter (mail icon, per feedback) - PostHog Code → Command Center: IconGridMasonry (square split into a grid) - Diversify Support → Guides colors (all entries were orange) and swap Slack integration's icon to IconChat to avoid duplicating IconMessage with Widget setup Also fix other docs nav items whose icon names didn't resolve in @posthog/icons: - Product tours → Customize styles: IconColor → IconPalette - Customer analytics → B2B mode: IconCohort → IconGroups - Customer analytics → Create usage metrics: IconG (typo) → IconGraph - Endpoints → Rate limits: IconGauge → IconDashboard And add a fallback in TaskBarMenu/menuData.tsx so icon names that exist only in src/components/OSIcons/Icons.tsx (e.g. IconTag, IconAnthropic, IconOpenAI, IconClaudeCode, IconGemini, IconLangChain, IconOpenRouter, IconOpenClaw) resolve too. PostHog Icons still take precedence so JSX usage like <Icons.IconApps /> is unchanged. Generated-By: PostHog Code Task-Id: 680d1cf1-2902-4dca-9b31-1f8546f84152 * Revert: don't add OSIcons fallback to TaskBarMenu icon resolver Keep the import surface in menuData.tsx unchanged per review feedback. The local-OSIcons-only names (IconTag, IconAnthropic, IconClaudeCode, IconGemini, IconLangChain, IconOpenAI, IconOpenRouter, IconOpenClaw) were already silently failing before this PR and remain a separate problem to solve elsewhere. Generated-By: PostHog Code Task-Id: 680d1cf1-2902-4dca-9b31-1f8546f84152 * fix(nav): drop Product Tours entries to resolve merge conflict with master Master removed the Product Tours product in #16756 (deleted docs, landing page, and nav entries). This branch was still adding back the Product Tours docs sidebar block, causing a merge conflict in src/navs/index.js. Remove both Product Tours entries from src/navs/index.js (the API reference link and the main docs sidebar section) so the three-way merge against master is clean again. Generated-By: PostHog Code Task-Id: c0d6ec58-56fd-41f2-a83d-d098d1ef26cb

charlescook-ph requested review from a team and raquelmsmith May 6, 2026 13:48

charlescook-ph requested review from CEMcNEill and natalia-amorim May 6, 2026 13:49

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