Magento Is Shit
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- dskz0
and im done.
- TResudek0
Back to reality - I am just starting to use magento and it seems like it is manageable as long as you know your way around HTML and PHP. Admittedly, it has some clunkiness but for the price you can change for an e-comm site, it is worth dealing with. Certainly a lot easier than a lot of the options out there.
I will concede that there is not a lot of support out there yet. Look at where Wordpress is these days. If Magento is to eComm what WP is to blogs then we will all be happy campers in a couple of years.
- Blogs a nd e-commerce are different, blogs tend towards untiy, e-commerce towards endless customisationvaxorcist
- vxcriss0
Unfortunately Magento IS shit. If you plan on using it as it is, and you don't actually need any fancy functionality for your website, then it's ok to use it, the nightmare comes if you happen to want it to do anything more than it can do. There's so many things wrong with it on so many levels that I'd need to write a whole article to explain all of them. Let's just say that as an experienced web developer, I'd rather build an ecommerce site from scratch in order to suit my specific needs than modify Magento. Why? Cause it will be way much faster, it will take way less headaches and work, and at the end I'll have a robust application that does exactly what the client wants, how he wants it, and the site admin won't have to deal with the overcomplicated admin panel of Magento and waste time learning how to operate it.
- Is this due to layer upon layer of code-fishing in Magento, or due to oddball errors?vaxorcist
- acescence0
well that was quite a rant, but i'll have to say I agree with you. it's dog slow just running locally on my mac and you have to dig through thousands of files to make one little change to the layout.
- brodster0
i think its the programing is being outsourced to India
- vaxorcist0
Okay..... whatever....
Question: Has anyone here migrated FROM Magento to something else? What else? What did you learn?
I ask because I know a client who's asking me, and I'm unlikely to take the gig, but I want to at least know a bit of what may happen...
- acescence0
The only migration I've done away from it was for a client whose needs were very simple and was way oversold on Magento. She had paid for months of dev time and still didn't have the store looking the way she wanted, and was totally baffled by the back end. I rebuilt the whole thing in 3 days with WordPress and wp-ecommerce and she's much happier now.