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I think that is it for me with Wordpress. Started using it in 2004 when it was just a baby. The new editor is not so good in my opinion. I had to install a plugin (that will only be supported for 2 years) so my brother could even post. We’ve been using Markdown there pretty much the whole time, and it doesn’t look like that is very well supported.

Apparently we both had the “Disable visual editor” checked, so the new Gutenberg engine doesn’t even let you use its new features, nor does it alert you of this fact. It just appeared broken. I don’t know how that made it through testing.

So I went to write a reasonably tame note on their support forum. The post was deleted by a moderator in minutes as I was told “these are not discussion forums” even though I was in the Feedback forum. I also can’t log in anymore. I guess I was flagged? The reply the mod wrote was pretty arrogant (I’m being nice). In reading through that forum, I found a lot more arrogance towards people expressing their concerns from the moderators. And those are the posts that weren’t outright deleted. Our way or the highway. I guess it’s the highway.

I’m a bit sad. Like I said, I’ve been using Wordpress since 1.2. I have a few people who have posted on the blog for over 14 years. I imagine it will be a fair amount of work to convert the site. I have time - the Classic editor will be supported for 2 years. But I guess that is the way forward.