Is Joomla 4.0 Upgrade Terrible? (OR Avoid it at all costs.. and stay with what works 3.9....)

 

We've never known a major vendor/brand to have a successive release which is worse... but this one is...ITS HORRIBLE.... for three main reasons (Unless you have never built a Joomla site which is in production... in which case you are at first base anyway):

1) Joomla scrapped all their previous templates for formatting... so if you used Beez, or Prostar... they dont exist anymore... so you arent really upgrading your site YOU ARE STARTING OVER.....every page has to be reformatted... and the new fonts are like 18pt and so large it looks horrible, even hopeless.

2) Not all vendors plugins work on 4.0 because its a completely different architecture altogether... they rebuilt the table structure...so most of what you are using on your original site probably doesnt work (See OneAll Social Logins).

3) Joomla is struggling with market traction, and is no longer testing and certifying their vendors products. Vendors like Akeeba backup only have products which work on MySQL... but Joomla has no idea, and you install them anyway... and find out your system breaks alltogether if you use their other DBMS structures (MS-SQL, POSTGRES, ETC)...

AND A BONUS....

4) Joomla asks you to upgrade to 4.0... and dont warn you that nothing you have done already doesnt work... so you hit Upgrade(which has always worked seemlessly before and this times no different... except now it doesnt work anymore the way it used to)...

And it looks like 3.9... just not working anymore... so we are not sure what new features they added...because the first three problems are so large... that we dont even care to find out what we are missing. 

Shout Back if you think we are wrong...

Yours Truly Stewart - (The Vendor Hater....for Today).