Got suckered into helping a non-profit with their web presence, and of course, it was a Wordpress site (at least it wasn’t a Facebook page).

Everything about WP is mildly infuriating at best, just regular infuriating at worst. Everything. If you know, you know. It’s like they tried so hard to make it “easy” to use that it went full circle into a fuster-cluck of unintuitive and clunky everything.

With every facet of the experience being an upsell, is there a tier where it’s just not horrible to use?

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I love SharePoint :)

      Keep it simple and it’s a wonderful platform. Too many people overcomplicate things and cause themselves their own headaches.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I upvoted you for participating in good faith, but I definitely don’t agree about Sharepoint. I’ve made projects succeed despite Sharpeont, never because of it. lol.

        • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
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          9 months ago

          I think a lot of that is a lack of knowledge around it’s capabilities, it’s not as flexible as other systems, but at the same time it’s absolutely amazing at doing certain things really fast and easily. I have thousands of people using systems I’ve built in SharePoint and more than half of them don’t even know it’s SharePoint. They just pop in, use it, and get out.

          • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
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            9 months ago

            In all fairness, it may be. In the cases that have been dropped on my plate, it was absolutely not the correct tool for the job. It was just “what we have”.

      • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        The first line - don’t say that out loud, or you won’t make any friends. The only thing worse is Lotus Notes.

          • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            You do realize that you can simultaneously make money on something and acknowledge it’s a piece of shit at the same time, right?

            • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
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              9 months ago

              Except it isn’t a piece of shit. It does what it says it does on the box. The fact that people expect it to do far more than that is their fault, not the fault of the product.