Since the last host change, I decided to give WordPress’ Gutenberg (a.k.a. the block editor) a try.
So I wrote the last two or three posts on it.
It’s atrociously bad.
430 words
And seemingly, I’m not the only one who thinks that:
See, the problem with mean averages. Most people give 1, but a few give 5, the average becomes 2.
First, the block shit is the least intuitive thing ever imagined.
Want to post an image? Block. Writing? There’s a block for that.
There’s really no good reason for it, people who use computers have dealt with fuckhuge blocks of text and images constantly for decades. Open any word processor document and it’ll probably be 10-100x more complex than the average WordPress post.
Yet people still manage to work with those documents.
Every paragraph being a block is asinine. “Oh, but this way you can move a paragraph up or down on the overall text easily!”
Yes, you can, but who the fuck does that? And with what frequency?
I’ve been writing blocks of texts since I was a kid, I know (somewhat) how to structure what I want to write, never in my entire life did any paragraph need to be moved three paragraphs up or down, much less by dragging and dropping.
Second, It doesn’t quite like my pre-“we’re gonna become Chrome” Firefox versions.
Using Firefox ESR 52.9.0 and Palemoon (whatever version is the most recent) and the fucking thing has a bunch of glitches.
For example in the post schedule you can only set the date, the hour boxes simply don’t acknowledge any changes made.
You can barely see the check marks in check boxes.
In fact it’s nearly useless in Firefox ESR 52.9.0, with all the faggy floating widgets and shit not being in the place they are supposed to be at. Took me a while to find out how to centre an image.
But hey, old unsupported version of Firefox (the last good version of Firefox if I may add), so I can’t complain too much.
Works slightly better in Palemoon, but not by much. And I’m not about to change browser just because of a shitty post editor that they are trying to force into use.
And another pet peeve is that it doesn’t have a way to choose from the most used tags, you need to remember what tags you want.
At best it does auto-complete of the tags.
But since I rarely post, by the time each new post is written I’ve forgotten the tags I have established on the site.
Classic editor, I proclaim my fealty to you.