Mastodawn

Omg, #GA4 keeps breaking things left and right... Today's complaint is that regex no longer properly works in GA4 or through Looker.

If you want to get it to work, your beautiful regex now has to create exact matches...

... According to one reddit post I've found, this has been going on for a whole month...

...and I now hope that the thousands let go by Google didn't include the analytics team on fixing these bugs.

So, 4 months to go until a forced transition on a buggy product? Yikes...

@micahfk I've tried running regex to match 100 pages in GA4 tosay. I couldn't get results, the requests were timing out.

@MikeBlazer found that GA4 changed their regex dialect in December from partial matching by default to exact matching.

So now everything needs ".*" at the front and back

@MikeBlazer granted, still not working within some sections in GA4, but at least creating new reports works that way now