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Wix is an unethical company. They lure less tech savvy users in, get their content, and provide no way to export the data. They effectively own your content, it

Wix is an unethical company. They lure less tech savvy users in, get their content, and provide no way to export the data. They effectively own your content, it is terrible.

GermanDude 6y ago
Where was the RSS feed eliminated? It should be there - https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-blog-connecting-your-blog-to-an-rss-feed https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-blog-connecting-your-...
warkdarrior 6y ago
The Wix post above seems to contradict you, Are the tools Wix mentions for exporting data not working?
- Natfan 6y ago
  The point is that these are third party tools. If Wix actually cared about their user experience, they would allow exporting of account content.
- asidiali 6y ago
  There is a fundamental difference between natively offering data export vs referring your users to third party scrapers with no direct support. He even said it himself - they haven’t “turned them off” or limited them but that tells you all you need to know about their perspective on those “export tools”.
- karaterobot 6y ago
  The Wix documentation is pretty clear that you can't export your site. https://support.wix.com/en/article/exporting-or-embedding-your-wix-site-elsewhere https://support.wix.com/en/article/exporting-or-embedding-yo... > Your Wix site and its technology is hosted on Wix's servers. You can connect a domain to your Wix site and host the domain with another provider, however, your Wix site must remain hosted on Wix's servers. They then go on to say that the reason you can't export is due to the nature of SaaS, which is just hogwash. It's a lock-in decision they made, which many of their competitors (E.g Squarespace, Webflow) did not make.
- yosamino 6y ago
  I am currently manually copying a website off of Wix after trying to find a tool that does an export. I took it over from a client after their previous webdesigner very obviously struggled to make a half decent website with it. The whole thing is a bunch of images, a menu and maybe one page worth of text alltogether - basically a small product catalog. But even that ,because of the convoluted code Wix creates, is impossible to export in a half-maintainable way. And I have checked - it´s not just the webdesigner´s fault - I mean, I´ve tried to open the wix editing tool, and it uses so much memory that it regularily crashed the chrome tab that I had opened it in. It´s really one of the worst tools that I have ever used (I am sure there is worse - but I haven´t used it). And to quote from their documentation: https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-editor-downloading-a-page-from-your-site https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-editor-downloading-a-... Wix does not support the exporting of files created using Wix to an external destination or host. All Wix creations are hosted on Wix's servers. The advantages of using Wix as your host include improvements to your site's loading time, search engine optimization and more. So I don´t really know what he is even talking about in that "Open letter" Edit: and to add "improvements to your site's loading time, search engine optimization and more." my ass...
  - artpi 6y ago
    > I am currently manually copying a website off of Wix after trying to find a tool that does an export. You may want to have a look at this Github repo: https://github.com/pento/free-as-in-speech https://github.com/pento/free-as-in-speech
sandGorgon 6y ago
whoa. wix doesnt allow you to export. Had absolutely no idea. not nice.

Wix is an unethical company. They lure less tech savvy users in, get their content, and provide no way to export the data. They effectively own your content, it is terrible.

GermanDude 6y ago

Where was the RSS feed eliminated? It should be there - https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-blog-connecting-your-blog-to-an-rss-feed https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-blog-connecting-your-...

warkdarrior 6y ago

The Wix post above seems to contradict you, Are the tools Wix mentions for exporting data not working?

Natfan 6y ago
The point is that these are third party tools. If Wix actually cared about their user experience, they would allow exporting of account content.
asidiali 6y ago
There is a fundamental difference between natively offering data export vs referring your users to third party scrapers with no direct support. He even said it himself - they haven’t “turned them off” or limited them but that tells you all you need to know about their perspective on those “export tools”.
karaterobot 6y ago
The Wix documentation is pretty clear that you can't export your site. https://support.wix.com/en/article/exporting-or-embedding-your-wix-site-elsewhere https://support.wix.com/en/article/exporting-or-embedding-yo... > Your Wix site and its technology is hosted on Wix's servers. You can connect a domain to your Wix site and host the domain with another provider, however, your Wix site must remain hosted on Wix's servers. They then go on to say that the reason you can't export is due to the nature of SaaS, which is just hogwash. It's a lock-in decision they made, which many of their competitors (E.g Squarespace, Webflow) did not make.
yosamino 6y ago
I am currently manually copying a website off of Wix after trying to find a tool that does an export. I took it over from a client after their previous webdesigner very obviously struggled to make a half decent website with it. The whole thing is a bunch of images, a menu and maybe one page worth of text alltogether - basically a small product catalog. But even that ,because of the convoluted code Wix creates, is impossible to export in a half-maintainable way. And I have checked - it´s not just the webdesigner´s fault - I mean, I´ve tried to open the wix editing tool, and it uses so much memory that it regularily crashed the chrome tab that I had opened it in. It´s really one of the worst tools that I have ever used (I am sure there is worse - but I haven´t used it). And to quote from their documentation: https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-editor-downloading-a-page-from-your-site https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-editor-downloading-a-... Wix does not support the exporting of files created using Wix to an external destination or host. All Wix creations are hosted on Wix's servers. The advantages of using Wix as your host include improvements to your site's loading time, search engine optimization and more. So I don´t really know what he is even talking about in that "Open letter" Edit: and to add "improvements to your site's loading time, search engine optimization and more." my ass...
- artpi 6y ago
  > I am currently manually copying a website off of Wix after trying to find a tool that does an export. You may want to have a look at this Github repo: https://github.com/pento/free-as-in-speech https://github.com/pento/free-as-in-speech

sandGorgon 6y ago

whoa. wix doesnt allow you to export. Had absolutely no idea. not nice.