The editor for V2 has been significantly updated. This is good and bad. The good - Markdown still works by default.
Bad Support. Due to the recent spate of people being cut loose by their employers to mollify crowds, Aydin Paladin has done a series of vids on customer satisfaction, and if ditching employees or founders actually helps the company, is the customer always right, etc. They are as usual, long, and insanely pedantically detailed with all of the relevant references. Interestingly, it appears that ditching an employee or employer for PR reasons has little or no effect, though there are some edge c…
As the old saw goes, for everything there is a season. After helping out a friend with learning the current Squarespace editor, all I can say is that if the current state of Gutenberg is the best we can do after a year and a half, I have no desire to fuck with it. Squarespace has it’s own quirks, but if one of the templates is remotely close to how you want to set up your site (remember, graphics and colors are editable) you can whip something up and start on getting content in play, with a high…
Looking at my options for migration – and yes, I’m aware that I can still use the old editor for a while but I’d rather bite the bullet given the issues the new and “improved” editor presents for basic writing that they’re just unresponsive about fixing such as still not allowing block elements like lists to be nested inside of blockquotes despite it being explicitly allowed, or making it obnoxious to run together multi-paragraph formatting – it’s a no contest for exportation. Ghost. That is sti…
I still am debating the if/when of keeping comments going forward (sorry about the old ones in either case, they won’t import/export), but I’ve got the import / export chain for ghost working. The only part I haven’t proofed is copying images across the interwebz and then running a grep-style find/replace on the exported JSON file to update all the image link URLs for the new file root path, but that’s just copying, and a find/replace. Hell, I haven’t even picked a theme out yet, and would be c…