This editor is ten steps backwards. Forgets the majority userbase

  • hydrogriff

    (@hydrogriff)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    I volunteer at a local school and help them maintain a community website (uses WordPress) where kids publish everyday. I introduced them the new editor just to know if they are comfortable with it. Teachers and children; all most everyone found gutenberg editor confusing and I quote, ‘messy’, ‘this is hard’, ‘confusing’.

    They feel the existing editor to be more user friendly and easy to use. I feel the same (I work for a publishing company that uses WordPress too).

    This is a fine example of bad software design, where something is forced to the majority of the users just to gratify a minor percent of the total userbase.

    Please do a survey before you consider adding this to the core. I highly recommend the wordpress team to consider the majority user base. Please leave it as a plugin where everyone can get what they want.

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  • wanderingexplorer

    (@wanderingexplorer)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    @hydrogriff

    I couldn’t agree more. I have done the same and tried to get a small random sample of my own user base to try it out. People who are fairly computer literate and some that are a bit less so.

    The result… everyone says the same thing. “Too complicated”. “Can’t find [blah blah] (settings and tools)”. “Can’t we just stick with the current editor?”, “This is a nightmare!”, “Step backwards”, “I need to take a degree to learn how to use this”.

    Very disappointed with the WP management team to let it get this far without listening to the community! It’s a nice idea, but not fit for purpose. Please don’t add this to core!!

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