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submitted 5 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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"It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong"

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

all software sucks, but WordPress particularly sucks

it started as blogging software, then overwhelmingly its users were business site designers, so that's who's paying Automattic

hence the shitty Gutenberg block editor

the substrate of blogging functionality hasn't actually been broken, but ...

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"what do you mean you can't model your whole site on Posts"

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago

followed by the next level of hell: "oh god, what, these are all made of Posts? seriously? what?", and crying in a corner