Why is Modx not very popular?

Quote from: bowkilled at May 30, 2012, 12:46 AM

Quote from: khyrlik at May 29, 2012, 09:32 AM

MODX has or 'almost' has most of these features. But every single one user have to get them working together on his own. I think designation of MODX as developer's best CMS impacts too much quality of it's development.

What i meant was that MODx needs people to read the "how-to" manual before they can start working on their content.

With Joomla, Drupal or e107 all you have to do is to navigate in the menus (no need to read any manual)..

edit: Thanks to wonderful 504 errors on this forums my hour of writing got lost and I don't like wasting next one on it. Just like a day with MODX.

edit2: So it will make it very short (and not polite):
1) Make ready site package anyway, developers will appreciate it even if they don't really need it.
2) Up quality of development: Put more manpower, fix bugs, polish releases, make 100% sure that release has really release quality.
3) Don't use 'we are for developers' as excuse for poor quality, buggy code, poor documentation and lack of mid and advanced tutorials.
4) Your slogan says "You can do everything" but reality is "You have to do everything". [ed. note: khyrlik last edited this post 14 years, 4 months ago.]

my hour of writing got lost

Sorry to quibble, but unless you were trying to post three comments, your original comment was not actually lost.

As for the other points... well, I don't think anyone would argue that fixing more bugs faster or writing more and better documentation is a bad idea. However, my experience has been that critical bugs get fixed pretty quickly in most cases. Also, there are some intermediate to advanced tutorials in the rtfm, Bob has a lot more on his site and in his book, and more are being added in the manual and by third parties at a reasonable rate. Keep in mind that Revo is still pretty early in its life cycle compared to other major CMS.

As for using "MODX is for devs" as an excuse, I think if that's done, it's mostly done by us users, not by the MODX team themselves. When I complain about things, which I admit I do from time to time, the core team is always very receptive to criticism and don't make excuses at all.

The long delays and Gateway timeouts are truly annoying, but it appears that the posts are saved in spite of them.


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hi

What i meant was that MODx needs people to read the "how-to" manual before they can start working on their content.

With Joomla, Drupal or e107 all you have to do is to navigate in the menus (no need to read any manual)..

you must be speaking about revo...
i can tell how many websites i've made with evo for guys or companies and no one has never had to read any manual to manage their website content
more, as i said once, the first website i made with modx was for a company "webmaster" who couldn't bear joomla anymore and wanted something really simple to use, easy to understand
that was my first try at modx, evo, i never went back

have swing