People need to chill… seriously

  • I think an update to the WordPress editor is looooong overdue. The current iteration of Gutenberg is sooo much easier to use than the original editor, does not insert unnecessary HTML tags and doesn’t break an almost finished article/layout as easily as the original editor does. Furthermore it is WAY easier to work with and much much more streamlined and structured [redacted]

    BUT you will always get those individuals who will choose to stick with the old and familiar, so in my opinion, it would probably be best to let folks decide for themselves which editor they would like to use. Me? I’ll be using Gutenberg going forward for sure.

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by Andrew Nevins. Reason: Removed non complimentary references
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  • Wow, how flippant of you to put down people’s complaints about this change as “bitching” or as people who “choose to stick with the old and familiar”.

    Wordpress is not a page builder or a layout maker or a tool for developers. It’s a blogging platform and has always been a blogging platform since the very beginning. Millions of people who chose it did so because they wanted a platform where they could just type their thoughts into it like they would in a word processor and click publish. That is why the editor was designed the way it was, for the benefit of bloggers.

    Gutenberg is forcing millions of people who’ve been using this and other blogging platforms for a long time to deal with a cumbersome interface that is no longer made for them but for developers and people who want to build cheesy web sites. That’s why people are upset. They spent countless hours and in some cases a lot of money to work with this platform, only to have the very reason why they chose it in the first place yanked from them.

    And you calling this “progress”? Don’t make me laugh. I’ve been publishing on the web since I built my first home page in Homestead in 2000. Gutenberg is a throwback to 1990s page builders, free web page hosts like Geocities and the Squidoo publishing platform, so it’s anything but progress. It’s taken everything back 20 years.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Hi @strusbobbin, I just have to ask you not to make those non-complimentary remarks about other reviewers. Otherwise this review will turn into a review about reviews. This isn’t what we want. We’re looking for feedback about what went wrong ?? So it there’s anything negative that you could pick up Gutenberg on that would be great! But I appreciate your review still.

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