I want to like it but I can’t.

I really, really want to like Gutenberg. I’m not hating on it because of change, I didn’t come from the classic editor and I don’t have any love for it. I want Gutenberg to be awesome, I think the overall design concept is just fine.

But this implementation is just not ready. I’m consistently flabbergasted that it was released to the most popular web platform in the world. It is buggy in a lot of ways, lags horribly on a state of the art system, and generally smacks of a pre-alpha release.

The drag and drop functionality is among the poorest and least consistent I’ve ever seen, even dating back to the 90s.

Another annoying problem I is the lack of a container block. This is really basic and needed for all kinds of things. Literally every website I can think of would benefit from this kind of a block, one which you could put other blocks in. It would extend the functionality to a massive degree.

There are plugins that offer this, and they work, but the lag is intense. You really cannot drag and drop with predictable results, you have to stick to the arrows.

As a theme developer who’s been at html and css for nigh on two decades, I can’t even begin to say how frustrating this editor is for putting pages together. It’s not a good tool at all as it stands.

BUT, that can be resolved, if they can make it more performant and drastically improve the drag and drop functionality, and very importantly, give us a block that performs well that we can nest infinitely into, out of the box.

• This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by whywaitwebs.
• This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by whywaitwebs.
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