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Cynthia You reinforced my point. The use of React library blocks on the front end UI is for people without tech skill, the same market as Wix and others. However I build and maintain sites for my biz. I do not build themes for sale. I am not training clients, as I once did, to use a site. My business owns its sites. I have zero interest in using others code in widgets or plugins except for a couple that make no sense to code myself as a function. I have the same reaction to blocks. I do not want to work with blocks on the admin UI. I also do not want forced updates; I test local first and correct code hiccups, if any, before they are live. Where do I go? I am looking and frustrated. All departures mean loads of wasted time learning and converting to new dynamic systems. Frankly that raises my hackles as I think of what that unnecessary work does to my schedule and think on the unravelling of my past work — with the end result being the same sites with the same features. In the new WordPress, you are either a React Block coder or you are a non-techie, selling setup or doing it yourself. And I do not believe there is an infinite number of blocks in the universe. At some point only maintenance will be needed and block developers will shrink. And what will be left? People with low tech skills who help people with no tech skills set up what you see sites and then exit, maybe with a lean on me fee for periodic help…. and Automattic and it’s investors, plus some maintenance devs. Oh well. That will be so awesome. Imagine all the new people getting interested in front end coding. That does not matter, I know. It’s not a talking point. The only things that is important is that the least skilled be able to build a site and Matt’s investors have an exit strategy. Unintended consequences? Not relevant. And if you don’t drink the cool aide you are a dinosaur, subject to a ban in the WP forums. But I waste time, a nonrenewable resource, I need to instead figure out what the hell to do.
Cynthia
You reinforced my point. The use of React library blocks on the front end UI is for people without tech skill, the same market as Wix and others.
However I build and maintain sites for my biz. I do not build themes for sale. I am not training clients, as I once did, to use a site. My business owns its sites.
I have zero interest in using others code in widgets or plugins except for a couple that make no sense to code myself as a function. I have the same reaction to blocks. I do not want to work with blocks on the admin UI. I also do not want forced updates; I test local first and correct code hiccups, if any, before they are live.
Where do I go? I am looking and frustrated. All departures mean loads of wasted time learning and converting to new dynamic systems. Frankly that raises my hackles as I think of what that unnecessary work does to my schedule and think on the unravelling of my past work — with the end result being the same sites with the same features.
In the new WordPress, you are either a React Block coder or you are a non-techie, selling setup or doing it yourself. And I do not believe there is an infinite number of blocks in the universe. At some point only maintenance will be needed and block developers will shrink.
And what will be left? People with low tech skills who help people with no tech skills set up what you see sites and then exit, maybe with a lean on me fee for periodic help…. and Automattic and it’s investors, plus some maintenance devs. Oh well. That will be so awesome. Imagine all the new people getting interested in front end coding. That does not matter, I know. It’s not a talking point. The only things that is important is that the least skilled be able to build a site and Matt’s investors have an exit strategy. Unintended consequences? Not relevant. And if you don’t drink the cool aide you are a dinosaur, subject to a ban in the WP forums.
But I waste time, a nonrenewable resource, I need to instead figure out what the hell to do.
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