Hi Markus,
I’m sorry that you feel that way.
For V1 we will provide security updates only if necessary until V2 has been adopted by the vast majority of users.
It’s true that we rewrote more than 90% of it, but for users of V1, moving to V2 will be a couple of steps more compared to a regular update.
The database structure is almost identical and we will provide a conversion tool for the business hours and whatever else needs change.
If you customized your designed a lot, you might have some more work to do. However in comparison to V1, that could take days to redesign, with V2 it should take few hours to do the same thing.
Only the confession of total failure would lead to discontinue a piece of software despite an established userbase
I’m sorry, but this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Every single software company every now and then re-design their products to get rid of the technical debt accumulated during the years.
If this wasn’t true, we’d still be using MS-DOS on our PC or Apple DOS 3.1 on our Apple computers.
Without going too far, WooCommerce did it at least twice since 2011. Every single person that wanted to update their shop, had to update their theme templates in order to work. Exactly what we are asking to do here.
WordPress will release Gutenberg in WP 5.0 (very soon) and every single website that wants to update, will have some work to do to keep their content as it was.
That’s not confessing failure. It’s called evolving. Moving forward.
Thanks anyway for your feedback.
Paolo 6 years, 7 months ago.
