Frustrating

I really don’t get posts like this…I mean, you have these treasure trove of experience using all kinds of word processors (or text editors as you call them), and instead of using that experience -that I’m sure translates to knowing what works and what doesn’t- instead come here to write “It’s frustrating”.

Come on! help the devs! contrast your experience with the actual use model of Gutenberg, tell the devs what you think it could work and what doesn’t! you could contribute something instead of just write “frustrating”.

It’s ok to dislike something, but you could be more helpful in this process.

Hello Orlando,

You are more than right. And 99 out of 100 times I do exactly that. Share my point of view as feedback. But yesterday I was in a hurry and was really frustrated after spending more than half an hour trying to do NORMAL SIMPLE THINGS that I have been doing all my life and feeling dumb and clumsy; as if I had never ever used a computer. I simply could not afford to spend more time with that.

I don’t have much time today, either, but basically, I hate blocks. They seem to have a life of their own. The very first thing I do when I use a word processor (sorry for my English, I am not a native speaker) is disabling the autoformat (creating lists automatically, auto puctuation, line jumps…) I find that really annoying. With Gutenberg, every time I hit ENTER a new block is created… oh… WHY? I really don’t get it… I like deciding MYSELF when to create a paragraph or a block. Under my poing of view, a block SHOULD NOT be the same as a paragraph. I can be writing about a topic and prefer to have several paragraphs under the same block. And now I have to be extremelly careful of when I hit enter or one of this hated blocks will be created. And new “blank” blocks cannot be deleted so, after a while a had like 5 or 6 unused blank blocks that, again, could not delete. So I had to type at least one letter in each of those blocks to be able to delete them.

Blocks are also VERY annoying visually. Instead of having the normal writing space now everything is narrow and constrained. It makes me feel like a prisioner of my own screen. I can switch to full screen. Of course. But the poing is that I did not feel like this before. And now I do. So, for me, this change is not an improvement.

And now the last part. What really drove me nuts. I tried to update a previous, quite long, article moving some pictures from one place to another and… that is when I quit, got mad and decided to uninstall Gutenmberg. Before Gutenberg, I could freely move my images whenever I wanted. Now I simply don’t know how to use it.

“Gutenger is new. You need to move and learn how to use it” Well… Yes; and no. I love travelling and I rent cars all over the world. I don’t need to spedn an hour reading the manual of car I am about to rent before I am actually able to drive it. Yes. Of course. Every car is different. But the core features of all of them are common. I don’t feel that with Gutenberg. I could not do on my own any of the things I was used to do with the previous editor. Is that really “moving forwards” or “backwards”. If Gutenberg is the editor of the “future” I will have no choice but learning Gutenberg or moving to a different platform. But I insist: after all my years of experience in front of a computer I find Gutenberb really frustrating.

I will share more point of views whenever I use it again (it is uninstalled now, thanks God I could uninstall it…)

Bests,

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by ramon.cutanda.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by ramon.cutanda.

@ramoncutanda-1

Thank you very much for your review. On that paragraph issue, you can press Shift + Enter instead of Enter to avoid creating another paragraph block.

@ramoncutanda-1

Do know the old editor will stay in the form of a Classic block eg: https://d.pr/v/mAP4Hh . It’ll be this simply to keep the editor and tons of other cool features.

Thank you for the tips. I did know that I could use Shift+Enter. But it is such unnatural for me. I cannot avoid hit Enter over and over again and, therefore, creating new blocks.

I did not know that the classic block was still there. I have uninstalled Gutenberg but, thanks to mhogas’ short video I have been able to take a screen capture. Why waste SO MUCH space with the blocks. I really don’t understand why the user cannot decide to extend the blocks from side to side. That is what I meant when I mentioned before that I felt “constrained”.

Anyways… Maybe sometime in the future, one day in the mood, I will try it again. Perhaps trying to see it with another pair of eyes will make me see it in a different way.

Thank you so much for your feedback.

Bests,

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