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Magento is horrible. Has anyone here ever used it? It is bad. Makes sense that eBay would acquire it, I guess. My hopes are not high for the platform.
by cookiecaper 15y ago
Magento is horrible. Has anyone here ever used it? It is bad. Makes sense that eBay would acquire it, I guess. My hopes are not high for the platform.
- invisible 15y agoIt's the best free eCommerce solution. Not that that is saying a lot.
- pbreit 15y agoI used to think that but Spree Commerce is pretty nice. And Rails, too.
- RobertLowe 15y agoThis. It's horrible.
- Apocryphon 15y agoI can't stop reading it as "Magneto".
- timdorr 15y agoIt's incredibly over-engineered. Just look at the templating system and see how far down you have to go in a directory tree just to make a simple edit on the page. The code itself is too fragmented to follow. A lot of the mental overhead from working on it comes from just having to remember where functions are in the code base.
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- olalonde 15y agoIt is a successor to osCommerce. You wouldn't say it's horrible if you took a look at osCommerce's source code.
- dangrossman 15y agoSpaghetti code or not, osCommerce ran on any cheap web hosting plan you had. Magento will eat up half a gigabyte of memory just to show a storefront.
- chrisjsmith 15y agoIt ran, but it didn't "work". Spaghetti is an understatement.
- kaens 15y agoosCommerce and their codebase being more horrible than Magento doesn't make Magento any less horrible.
- strooltz 15y agoI completely agree. It's painful to develop in and painful to use from a client perspective. I used it for some client projects a few years back and ended up just migrating them to spree after getting tired of client calls every time they attempted to update a product listing.